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[-] cymbal_king@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Get a password manager. It's a lot more secure and easier to only have to remember one strong main password and have the rest randomly generated

[-] NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago
[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I enjoy self hosting it

(Rather vaultwarden)

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

KeePassXC, donor, and I sync it with my (self-hosted) SyncThing server.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

FWIW, LastPass is bullshit. DYOR, and stay safe, citizens!

Also, it could be taken as a positive that BitWarden is the example Wikipedia uses to define password strength. 🤌🏼

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

[-] oppy1984@lemdro.id 3 points 1 week ago

My employer, a fortune 500, blocks password managers and all other add-ons.

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

My employer, a 12 people big company, nowhere near any fortune list, mandates the use of 1password for all company related accounts.

[-] oppy1984@lemdro.id 1 points 1 week ago

Ah but you see there's the problem, you don't have a committee to launch a working group that puts together investigative teams to research and write reports on the benefit of the solution, the ROI of the solution, the training costs of the solution, stakeholder buy in of the solution, and potential alternatives to the solution. You need at least a 10 month process before one jackass says they don't want the solution so the committee can recommend to management that the solution be abandoned.

[-] 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.

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[-] 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.

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[-] Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 6 points 1 week ago

i just use hunter2 for everything

[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why would your password be *******? That seems terribly insecure.

[-] Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 4 points 1 week ago

nobody else can see it when I type it.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

God, the tears rolling down my face laughing the first time I read that.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

BatmanSupermanSpidermanCaptainAmerica@2025

Just 4 characters are enough. And it includes Cap.

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

TheDoctor&CaptainJack

16 characters and a cap

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

Finally can't take it anymore

Downloads a Password Manager

Password Manager: "Please create a unique master password to begin"

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

That's one password, and then use 2FA or a passkey or a yubinkey or anything to secure it so the security of the password isn't a big deal

Then go to every single thing you have a password for, and have the password manager set it to something random. I personally like pass phrases get it up in the teens of characters multiple words multiple numbers multiple special characters. 99.9% of the time you shouldn't be typing any of this in. It should be injected for you. If per chance you should need to type one of them in typing in four or five words some numbers and some special characters is not really a horrible grievance.

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

It's not so bad once you develop a system.

[-] scytale@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I just checked my password manager vault and I currently have 311 passwords stored there.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 week ago
[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago

I have nearly 800. I think I need to do some cleaning.

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

!!! PASSWORD TOO WEAK !!! - your password must contains upper and lowercase characters, digits and symbols except not a hyphen for some fucking reason,, and no characters you've ever used in past passwords and no digits that are in your postal code, data of birth, or shoe size. Zalgo text is acceptable.

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago
[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago

I was on the internet early enough that I had a four character, all lower case password to my emails and it never complained once.

[-] dihkbozo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

What? No punctuation marks? Special characters like !@#$%^&*()_+?

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 week ago

I got a "we've had customers accounts breached, please update your password" email the other day.

They specifically called out you can't use # in your password, and it's been bugging me why that is. What part if their system let's in other special characters but # is off limits?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Now that I’m thinking about this it’s bugging me too. If they are passing it to shell scripts maybe it’s interpreted as a comment? Some databases like Oracle use # to separate schema prefix from schema user and table name in a query? But none of those would really make sense here 🤷

What painting is that?

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

For everybody commenting on passwords manager, I've been using one for years now and I feel this so bad. My company has a password policy of changing the LAPTOP's password every 8 weeks and you can't reuse any of the last 10 passwords used. I hate it because I can't use a password manager to unlock my laptop and I'm so used to password managers by now that it's getting really hard to come up with new passwords that follow the stupid requirements and even worse remembering them. I'm veeeery close to just start noting them down in a notebook by my machine and then send a picture to our security guy to show him where he has gotten us all to

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Write a script that sets the password to 10 different passwords, then back to your original password.

[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Quick question friends:

If I'm already using bitwarden and decide to switch to self-hosting it; can I import my usernames and such?

I would most likely change all the passwords, but being able to migrate the websites (with corresponding username) would be kinda nice

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