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Another solid reason why you should never use the same password for multiple sites. To do so, you are effectively trusting every single site in the chain. I r
by mrcharles 17y ago
Another solid reason why you should never use the same password for multiple sites. To do so, you are effectively trusting every single site in the chain.
I read enough HN and Codinghorror to know that many sites have no clue how to handle passwords in a secure fashion.
- nailer 17y agoI stupidly got caught out a few years ago when Reddit left all their passwords in plain text, and then got hacked. I was dumb enough to have been using the same password on Paypal at the time, not quite understanding how Paypal was linked to my bank account.
- TheElder 17y agoYes, that's the lesson everyone should take from these kinds of incidents. We all know not to do it, yet it's so easy to use the same password on multiple sites. Use this as a lesson to learn from.
- nimaj 17y agoThis is why I like SuperGenPass (http://supergenpass.com/ http://supergenpass.com/).