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Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by JoBrad »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #142
lexandstuff wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm confused about what you're fucking off. Would you prefer to schedule haircuts via a call or an anonymous online form? Being able to schedule appointments online is one of the big wins of modern life imo: it beats waiting around on hold and laboriously explaining to the receptionist how to spell my last name.

> Would you prefer to schedule haircuts via a call or an anonymous online form? Why the hell no? At worst "an anonymous form" can ask for your mobile number only to remind you about the appointment (if it's not today for example). At best it should be really optional. In both cases there is absolutely zero need for both a login and a password. I have a local pizza joint working like that - you just punch in what you…

I want to pick a particular barber at my shop. They also need to know that I’m not a prankster who books a bunch of time slots with no intention of showing. Providing a mobile number (which needs to be confirmed) is a good way to accomplish both. I don’t get any spam from my shop, and would definitely complain if I did. But right now it’s a system that works really well for both of us.

Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

reaperducer wrote: post #140
whstl wrote: post #100

I'm probably the one with the least. I have 35 in my password manager. I purge the ones I don't need every 2 or 3 months. I even gave away GOG and Steam accounts to friends after years of not playing games. Sometimes I have to send a threatening email to delete some accounts. Currently there's about 2 I'm waiting for an answer. It's gotten worse lately: people just don't delete your account anymore :D. Because of tha…

a barbershop that needs login/password for scheduling haircuts? fuck off If it takes reservations, it's not a barber shop. It's a beauty salon.

That may have been true 10 years ago. Today, it just means the shop is using some popular booking SaaS to get exposure, as a good chunk of would-be customers don't even use web search engines anymore for this - they go to the usual booking site and type in "barbershop" or whatever, and pick from the list there.

Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by michaelsalim »

531 in my bitwarden storage. I don't create an account unless absolutely necessary. So the number is higher than I thought.

I guess most of it is likely work related. I cycle through many projects. Each of them have many accounts tied to them. Eg: DNS, domain, hosting, etc etc. Not to mention all the business systems like HR.

Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by twodave »

NoZebra120vClip wrote: post #108
tornato7 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The best solution is to create a Google Voice account and use that number for 2FA

Many MFA implementations will detect and disallow the use of VoIP numbers... for security reasons.

Yep, and this is because sim-jacking is actually less profitable than just finding records of people’s _past_ phone numbers and signing up for a voip service that supports sms for that number. And many of the voip providers just don’t do any kind of fraud prevention.

Source: I work at a place that is a natural target for this kind of thing.

Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by brickfaced »

KeePass says 305. That's a few decades' worth of logins across everything from Yahoo! to GMail to random online storefronts. Unique password for each. Doesn't include old accounts I've deleted where possible. Not all services offer account deletion, sadly. When I can't delete an account I leave it with blank or garbage contact info and link it to a one-off email alias for spam prevention.
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