• flatbield@beehaw.org
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    11 hours ago

    This is a great example of how impossible it is not write down usernmes and passwords and how infeasible forcing changes is.

    The other thing people do not talk about enough is user names. They should be somewhat random too and not reused. Forcing people to use their email address is particularly stupid but very common.

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      6 hours ago

      Yep, before I switched to a password manager in college I had 3-4 passwords I would use across all accounts, and I would constantly need to recover accounts because I would forget the PW.

      I actually don’t remember the last time I needed to recover an account. Having a password manager has been a massive time savings for me.