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Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
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Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#32Over 500, though I have no idea how many of them still exist. I use a password manager and unique email addresses, why would I care how many accounts I have?
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#33Interesting question! I just checked and, wow, I have 922 accounts in 1password. (From 10+ years of use.) It’s funny you bring this up because I’ve thought about “cleaning up” 1password before. But all the extra accounts are not really in my way. I never use oauth (like to create a new account / password for everything). All of my work-related accounts are in there from several employers. Lots of passwords for (proba…
The archive feature is nice for cleanup. It doesn’t delete, just hides from lists and searches. I’ve un-archived many items before.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#34Over 500, though I have no idea how many of them still exist. I use a password manager and unique email addresses, why would I care how many accounts I have?
What are you using for unique email accounts? DIY or some service?
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#35Around 300 at this point, sans any deleted ones. I don't think I know a single password anymore, since they're all randomized and separate for each site. > Obviously, anything with OAuth is "bundled" into my Google account. Maybe it's just me, but I try to never use centralized identity providers (outside of things that I really don't care about) and use separate e-mail auth whenever possible, across multiple e-mail…
I have about 150 accounts, though some of them are logins for vendors I dealt with once, a decade or more ago.
> I guess the next step would be to have usernames, phone numbers and even payment methods (apparently virtual credit cards sometimes work) also be more randomized and more compartmentalized, though something tells me it'd be a pain to do that. --- I do that. It's no trouble. I use various usernames to 'fuzz' tracking. Yes, anyone who really cared could track me by my IP address, but trackers are like whales sieving krill; they get so much, they don't bother to look very hard.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#36Around 300 at this point, sans any deleted ones. I don't think I know a single password anymore, since they're all randomized and separate for each site. > Obviously, anything with OAuth is "bundled" into my Google account. Maybe it's just me, but I try to never use centralized identity providers (outside of things that I really don't care about) and use separate e-mail auth whenever possible, across multiple e-mail…
> people getting banned … with no ways of getting in contact with the support
This is the most out-of-whack part in my humble opinion. Most of us have a tremendous amount of data and things like auth tokens tied up in Google, and Apple, and due to their scale and the fact that at least for GOOG it’s a “free service,” they’ve set the expectation up that “support” should be limited to searching an FAQ, and also that any account they ban must be some kind of troll account that shouldn’t be listened to. God forbid they give you a phone number where you could bother a person until your problem was solved.
Using ad-supported services for vital stuff is risky. But I know even Apple isn’t very helpful, even for those of their iCloud users who pay.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#37I really don't know how many accounts I have, for most of them I don't even store passwords, I just generate them in a deterministic way with a little password generator I made[0]. Some time ago I realized what a waste was to store so many secrets, even more knowing that for the most part I'll probably never need them again. For the - proportionally few - important secrets, I use (and really like) Pass[1]. [0]: https…
Aprico is a neat idea, but as soon as you face a website that has stupid requirements like a character limit, specific banned characters (like symbols), or other it has no way of adjusting for that and you have to start tracking exceptions. It also has a 1-1 limit of website, unless you come up with service naming heuristic as well. Regardless of these limitations (which I realize are edge cases and very much not the…
Don’t forget the even stupider variant, the allow-list of like 5 symbols. “Tell me you failed infosec 101 without telling me you failed infosec 101.”
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#38203 according to 1password, but I archive the ones I don't need roughly every year.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#39The elites don’t want you to know this but the accounts on the Internet are free you can take them home I have 458 accounts.
Every time you "log-in", you're increasing your carbon footprint :-)
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#40I really don't know how many accounts I have, for most of them I don't even store passwords, I just generate them in a deterministic way with a little password generator I made[0]. Some time ago I realized what a waste was to store so many secrets, even more knowing that for the most part I'll probably never need them again. For the - proportionally few - important secrets, I use (and really like) Pass[1]. [0]: https…
Aprico is a neat idea, but as soon as you face a website that has stupid requirements like a character limit, specific banned characters (like symbols), or other it has no way of adjusting for that and you have to start tracking exceptions. It also has a 1-1 limit of website, unless you come up with service naming heuristic as well. Regardless of these limitations (which I realize are edge cases and very much not the…
Anectodal from a few years of use, surprisingly those stupid requirements are almost a thing of the past nowadays. But yes, some edge cases still require some bits of muscle memory, which may be your thing, or not.
I'm a bit ashamed that I never found the time to write down some docs, so I never really shared it, apart from a few friends and colleagues. On desktop, the web extension is quite convenient, it will autofill everything for you but the master password.
On iOS, I made a simple shortcut[0] where you share a url and - thanks to the os autofill - you just get your password copied into the clipboard, no input required at all. Also, on Android there is something similar using the PWA Web Share Target API.
And that's it, thanks for your kind words.
[0]: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2dcb6680e6b3424d8708e673e1a...