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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I would do the word jumble suggested by xkcd, but so many websites require numbers, special characters, and disallow spaces that it would be impossible to remember unique passwords between those sites. Ironically I end up in a much weaker password ecosystem because I re-use the nearly-same password over and over again so I'm not constantly requesting a reset.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why not use a password manager?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

BitWarden now supports passkeys and has a free 2FA app.

No excuses not to be as secure as possible anymore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

yeah because half of them are 1234

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Which half? The hunt half or the er2?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

What parts? I only see "The **** or the ***?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

The "correcthorse" part

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I wonder how much of this stems from two stupid IT policies. For decades users have been told to not write down passwords and to change them regularly. The result of this policy is to use a small number of password variations that one reuses. Then IT complaims about it.

The better plan has always been to use long random passwords that you never reuse and write them down by some method like a password manger and only change them rarely for example when they may be compromised,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 47 minutes ago

I remember asking my company if they have official password management software in my job before my last job. They did not. I can't believe we have all this specific software to be used at the company but they don't put some time to identify what they want employees to use for this. Funny thing is security teams are such big deals but I think they actually don't want to get involved in case it does not work out.