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Having the kind of habits you need to keep yourself safe and private online.
Blows my mind how many people don’t consider or sometimes even reject the idea of things like password managers because “it’s too complicated”.
idk man, I know a password manager would make things easier and more secure, but it's still putting all your eggs in one basket. If the service I gave all my passwords to has a leak or gets hacked - I'm fucked. And I don't trust them to keep all my passwords locally and not peak in.
I'd rather a couple of my accounts I've long since forgotten about be broken into than for my entire digital life to be uprooted.
I have multiple passwords for the levels of security I want, bank is the most difficult, e-mail is close second, then we have mid tier passwords for things I care about personally but wouldn't really have big consequences if lost, and then the password I personally saw leaked on a russian hacker forum that I use when a webstie insists I need an account to be graced with their service lmao
A good password manager encrypts your passwords with your own master password (and if you don’t trust them, use an open source one like Bitwarden)—so, even if it gets hacked, your passwords are not immediately compromised. You should take even more measures, like using 2FA such as your phone or a physical key, which basically makes you invincible. Way better than remembering passwords.
I despise 2FA, I'll stick to my piece of paper with passwords written on it. And if someone breaks into my house and steals it it'll probably be the least of my worry at the time anyway