4 ms·

I am a data engineer at a fortune 50 company, I do. It's infuriating that I'm expected to have a unique alphanumeric key to every single thing I use on a comput

• notpushkin 3y ago
  Have you already been introduced to such concept as password managers?
  • Wissenschafter 3y ago
    Yeah, let me just put ALL of my passwords in ONE location. Like that is any better than reusing a password. Then you are relying on that password manager, what if you lose access to it or the data with your keys? Welp...
    • poorlyknit 3y ago
      > Yeah, let me just put ALL of my passwords in ONE location. By reusing a password, you're basically doing this already.
      • wepple 3y ago
        Even worse, you’re putting ALL of your “passwords” in 100 different places!
    • wepple 3y ago
      > what if you lose access to it We’ve been working very hard on this problem, and recently devised a scheme known as backups. It’s like a whole copy of your data someplace elsewhere! Snark aside; popular password managers have extensive recovery and replication capabilities.
    • notpushkin 3y ago
      > any better than reusing a password It is. That way you only trust your password manager and not every single app you use (that can easily dump your password when you login, or might even store it as plaintext). If a password manager is open source and you know how to audit it, you could do that. Otherwise you can ask somebody you trust who knows better. > what if you lose access to it or the data with your keys That is a possibility indeed. You should make backups, of course.
    • leobg 3y ago
      Like LastPass, for instance. /s
    • wastewastewaste 3y ago
      This is bait
      • notpushkin 3y ago
        I certainly hope it is!