• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 days ago

    This is terrible. If someone gets a couple of your passwords it’s pretty easy to work out the patterns and gain access to your other accounts.

    Don’t complicate it. Use a password manager. I know none of my passwords and that’s how it should be.

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      7 days ago

      For someone to work it out, they would have to be targeting you specifically. I would imagine that is not as common as, eg, using a database of leaked passwords to automatically try as many username-password combinations as possible. I don’t think it’s a great pattern either, but it’s probably better than what most people would do to get easy-to-remember passwords. If you string it with other patterns that are easy for you to memorize you could get a password that is decently safe in total.

      Don’t complicate it. Use a password manager. I know none of my passwords and that’s how it should be.

      A password manager isn’t really any less complicated. You’ve just out-sourced the complexity to someone else. How have you actually vetted your password manager and what’s your backup plan for when they fuck up?

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      7 days ago

      I Guess we already have a couple of his passwords … Good job man, Sorry whats your name ?