360 for websites (most of which I've only used once; the oldest are dated 2011, but those are probably import dates, as they all have the same timestamp), and 100 or so for more serious stuff (banking, routers, etc.) in KeePassXC.
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?
#62952, I store accounts user and passwords that I have since 2011, and I like to try new services. Especially to give feedback to makers.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#63About 1,400 in KeePass. Perhaps a poll would with ranges would have been better. 0-100 101-300 301-800 801-1200 1200+
Indeed, although it would not be that hard to parse all replies and plot it.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#64My keychain has 54 items in it. I think at least 5 of them belong to things I've shut down.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#65Shit, just looking at the replies, there's a solid case for password managers. No normal human is going to memorize 100+ unique passwords meeting various complexity requirements. It almost makes shaming people for re-using passwords look like you're out of touch. Of course they're following bad practices, how could they not be?!
I take a pragmatic approach: the dozen logins in my life that actually matter get strong unique passwords, and everything I don't give a shit about gets the same password.
I take the same approach with the extra precaution that those logins also get a separate email address (with a different pseudo-strong password). Makes it really easy to share nonsense logins with my wife/family.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#66about 750 in my personal 'pass' store, and about a 1000 in the shared password store for work. Bitwarden probably has a significant subset, but I prefer to keep 'pass' as authoritative source.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#67What is bitwarden doing to help lower the number of accounts, exactly? I'm out of the loop.
Bitwarden lowers the mental burden for secure (which includes unique) passwords, precisely because we have a crap ton of accounts.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#68600 in Chrome. 800 in iCloud Keychain. I assume there's a % of duplication between the two, since I don't really use Chrome anymore outside of Windows.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#69Shit, just looking at the replies, there's a solid case for password managers. No normal human is going to memorize 100+ unique passwords meeting various complexity requirements. It almost makes shaming people for re-using passwords look like you're out of touch. Of course they're following bad practices, how could they not be?!
There's a case for that even if you just have 5 important accounts. If the account matters, give it a long random password.
Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.”
There's a local government website that requires eight or fewer characters, and the eighth character has to be a digit.
They've tried to change the requirement, but it comes from vendor software. The vendor just waves around a middle finger and points to the contract.