I finally followed advice to stop using the same password everywhere

A coworker told me to get a password manager after my email got hacked last year. I ignored him until I lost access to three accounts in one week. Now I'm wondering if anyone else had to learn this the hard way before they listened.

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norag551mo ago

Oh PLEASE. Now you're going to trust some random app with ALL your passwords instead of just remembering ONE good one? That's just trading one problem for another.

william_miller24d ago

Brought this up with my buddy who works in IT security and he just laughed at the "just remember one good password" thing. Said that's exactly how people get pwned because no matter how good your one password is, if one site leaks it then every account you own is toast. I actually read a report from some security firm that said credential stuffing attacks go way up every year and most of them work because people reuse passwords. The whole point of a manager is you're not trusting the app with your passwords, you're trusting the encryption that even the app devs can't crack. Plus most of them are open source now so anyone can check the code for backdoors. Kinda like being scared of using a seatbelt because you don't wanna be trapped in the car, except the alternative is going through the windshield.

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davis.casey1mo ago

Respectfully, a password manager is way more secure than reusing the same weak password on 50 sites. A good one encrypts everything locally so even the company can't see your passwords. You're still only remembering one master password, but now every account gets its own random strong one instead of being vulnerable.