Edit. That is only my work 1pass. I have a personal instance too with a few hundred.
Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
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#86If I need to login to your site less than once or twice a year, "Forgot my password" is my password manager. Personally, I feel that the utility of me working to keep and maintain that information in a database for high availability is essentially zero. As a result, I store very few accounts overall and checking out as "guest" hasn't been a problem of any sort. There's like 10 critical things that I feel the need to…
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#89Shit, 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?
#90Shit, 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.
Sooner or later someone could take control of one of the accounts you don't care about and use in a way you don't expect to gain control of things you do care about.