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Ask HN: How old is your oldest password?
I just had to change a password for another service, and access broke because I had trouble with my password manager. I had to hit "Forgot your password?"
Then I just opened up my laptop, entering the LUKS password for the disk. These passwords can't be changed without re-encrypting the disk, a huge pain.
I'm sure a good password would be able to last a while.
How old is the oldest password you're still using on a semi-regular basis?
- theGeatZhopa 2y ago> 15y. It should finish highschool soon. Another password is >10y. And then there are combinations and iterations of these two, that are also mature :) Don't ask me, I won't tell you haha
- WinH 2y agoCongrats, any plans for college following graduation :)
- overu589 2y agoFor your question, I remember my first password from when I was ~13 and use it in jokey places, though my longest running password was twenty years, and that’s exclusively for local devices. On the general topic, I’m a touch typist and terrible at remembering things though I discovered I could learn to reflexively type passwords I did not intellectually “know”. These days I keep a password tab in my ever on person pocket journal (my persons is security ground zero) of ~18 character highly random strings which I rotate continuously. I find it takes me a couple of weeks to be able to use these passwords without looking (or “knowing” what they are.) I use one for personal system login, and one for my local only password manager (no lost pass.) All else uniquely keyed within!
- satotiga 2y agoI've recently been through as many of my active accounts as I could find and revamped the passwords after having used a variation of the same one in most places since 2012. Before that, the oldest one I still remember is from 2006, so that's going on 18 years.
- runjake 2y ago~40 years. No, it’s not a word in any language. Yes it’s been in several leaks and is in most password lists.
- throwaway519 2y agoasdfghjkl
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- didgetmaster 2y agoIt doesn't have to be a good password to last a long time. Security measures should be commensurate with the risk of loss. Just like I don't put my spare change in a crack-proof safe; I hate it when websites require super secure passwords to access information that I wouldn't mind leaving on my desk for every passerby to see.
- solardev 2y agoI still have my Hotmail email and password from the 90s, when Microsoft was still like what is this internet thing. It's what I still use to login to Windows. I never migrated to SkyLiveOneLook or whatever they call their email thing these days.
- 3000 2y agoabout 28 years