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Who TF isn’t using a password manager in 2025? Like how would you even function?

[-] salty_chief@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Federal and State jobs you can’t use password managers.

[-] DaGeek247@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

My federal job came with one pre-installed.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Depends on your clearance level/what you have access to.

[-] naticus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah idk about that. I've worked in state govt for a very long time and our cybersecurity controls essentially mandates we use one. I'm also in our security audit team and have to talk to state offices about our NIST controls regularly. And the NIST DOD controls are even more stringent than ours. Something sounds off.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago

Okay so remember the one or two ones you need there (try a passphrase!)

For everything else - password manager.

[-] salty_chief@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Federal I had about 15 passwords. The State job I had about half that.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yep.

I use pass phrases filtered through a mess of cyber chef.

I use modified “HorseBatteryStaple” style passwords. I have a couple base phrases that I always remember, with special characters and numbers inserted. I modify them bit by bit for different sites, and keep a list of the changes - only the changes. Anyone who looks at the list would see random words, numbers, or symbols without context; only I know how it all fits together.

For example, let’s pretend HorseBatteryStaple1! Is my default password. I may have “cell phone, machine 5” on the list. That would mean the password for my cell phone’s payment website modifies the default password by changing one of the words in HorseBatteryStaple to “machine” and the number 1 to 5.

I know password managers exist, but I like to try to remember my own passwords. Especially since I may need them across different devices, including my work laptop that I can’t download new programs onto.

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Caution, reusing parts of your passwords like that significantly reduces the effective entropy.

If someone finds HorseBatteryStaple1! in a plaintext leak, then they only need to guess one word and one number to get your phone password (assuming they know your format or use a matching heuristic).

[-] Booboofinget@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

I basically use a childhood limerick in leetspeak. Easy to remember, tough to Crack. Like for example, Peter Piper pickedna peck of pickled peppers becomes "P3t3rP1p3rP1ck3d4P3ck0fP1ckl3dP3pp3rz!" Of course I never used that particular one, but you get the idea.

[-] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

So you have the same password for everything? Which would mean a single password leak would compromise all of your accounts?

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social -2 points 1 week ago

Those are hackable too through

I have passwords I don't care about, passwords I keep on the manager, and then important ones I enter manually every time

[-] markz@suppo.fi 1 points 1 week ago

Don't ever use lastpass and the likes, when good open source ones exist.

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