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Appreciation post: the IT guy at my office who told me to stop reusing passwords finally got through to me
I used the same password for my email, bank, and work login for about 6 years and figured nobody would ever guess it since it had my dog's name and my old zip code. Last Tuesday our IT guy ran a test and cracked it in under 2 minutes with a free tool, then showed me a site where my email had already popped up in 4 different data leaks. So my question is, how do you all keep track of different passwords without losing your mind, because writing them on a sticky note under my keyboard feels like the wrong move.
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amy_craig286h ago
Keeps the sticky note honestly, because at least a sticky note under your keyboard can't get hacked from Russia at 3am while you're asleep. Think about it, a password manager is just one giant sticky note that lives on the internet, and if someone cracks that one master password you're done everywhere at once. Your coworkers who write stuff down are the ones who never get hit in those data leak lists in the first place. Sure the IT guy cracked your dog name in 2 minutes, but was he sitting in your office with your keyboard? That's the part nobody wants to admit.
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