A friend called my password strategy 'lazy' and honestly, they were right

I used the same base word with different numbers for everything, like 'summer2024' for my email and 'summer2023' for my bank. My friend, who works in IT, saw me type it and said 'That's just asking for trouble, man.' I switched to a password manager last week and let it create random 16-character strings for each site. Has anyone else had a hard time trusting a program with all their logins at first?

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viola_lopez3015d ago

Remember that old advice about writing your password down on a sticky note? My grandpa did that, stuck it right on his monitor. He said a thief would have to break into his house to get it, so it was safer than the internet. Took me years to convince him that wasn't how it worked anymore.

reese_rodriguez8615d ago

Your grandpa's logic is kind of charming in its own way, @viola_lopez30. I get why that old school thinking is hard to shake. It's a totally different world now with how things get stolen.

sagecooper15d ago

But is it really that unsafe? Most people aren't getting hacked because someone breaks into their house. They get tricked online. A sticky note hidden at home is probably safer than using the same easy password on ten different websites. The real risk is from data leaks and phishing, not a burglar looking for passwords.