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No need for a manager. Use a simple formula based on the company or service name. That way you can remember one base password and slightly modify it for any ser
by alxmng 3y ago
No need for a manager. Use a simple formula based on the company or service name. That way you can remember one base password and slightly modify it for any service. No need to copy and paste, no need to trust other companies with all of your passwords. No need for any software.
I haven’t thought about passwords in at least 5 years since I started using Apple + iCloud. Apple has native password management baked into everything. My face or thumb logs me in, whether I’m using laptop or phone. When creating accounts I just use the auto-fill and generated password.
- edent 3y agoHaving your Hotmail password be liamtoh1! is great... Until you need to update your password. Now you need to remember your base algorithm plus a counter. Oh, and some places don't allow "special" characters - so you have to remember multiple algorithms and counters. It gets tiresome and unwieldy quickly.
- NoahKAndrews 3y agoA password that simple is also going to get cracked really quickly if an attacker steals the hash.
- archargelod 3y agoWhy would you want to change a password? One obvious reason is a data breach. But are they so common to be of concern? I have a dead simple tool to generate secure scrypt hash and encode it to letters+digits+symbols. And I do not remember my counter / rules. Whenever I need a password, I just use the default parameters, if the password fails - I could just increase counter few times until it succeeds. Let's be real, if a service gets 5+ data breaches in less than a decade - it should be avoided.
- viraptor 3y ago> Use a simple formula based on the company or service name. The first leak with unhashed password will reveal your formula. Now you need to replace all passwords everywhere anyway.
- alxmng 3y agoSure, if they had many passwords from different services and then cracked the formula. It was deterministic based on company name but not immediately obvious. I had a separate “master” password for email and computer, because those were more important. Worked for me for 20 years.
- ezekg 3y agoI don't think most of us are important enough for an attacker to look at our passwords side by side and find correlations.