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Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years (www.wired.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I totally have unique passwords for all my hundreds of accounts around the internet.

[–] joby 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This reads as sarcastic to me, but I and many others legitimately do, through the use of a password manager. I have an encrypted database that syncs between my phone, laptop, and a vps, and I occasionally manually back up to a free email account. I only need to remember the one password to unlock the db.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What I’m saying is that I don’t criticize others for something I do myself - that would be hypocritical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Being hypocritical reflects bad on you. But that does not mean it is bad advice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The standard user cannot comprehend that Bitwarden is less than $1 a month and totally worth every cent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or that keepass is free and you can use any number of sync methods

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Having used KeePass for a few years, syncing via a self-hosted SFTP server, I can't recommend it for most people.

It's too technical, especially if you want sync, but even if you don't
Apps on different platforms don't quite agree with each other in all ways, making syncing a bit annoying (particularly: how to associate a login with multiple URLs)
It can be hard to pick which app to use on each platform, other than Windows, because there's no official/canonical best option (Mono has lots of drawbacks)

I've switched to Bitwarden and I'm sticking with it.