People should be made aware of all the tools available to properly manage tons of passwords. Not even going too deep into “passkey” stuff or any modern shenanigans, but a password manager used to generate random passwords for each separate sites is such a simple step.
I take a tiered approach: I use Chrome’s password manager for things I don’t care all that much about. I use PasswordSafe in a shared file in cloud storage for passwords that I care a bit more about. And for those very few that are incredibly important to me, I just memorize the password that’s usually made up of some long nonsense phrase (e.g. “apple youth brandish frobnitzer brainiac”) which has enough obscure words to necessitate a very hefty dictionary to crack (or even a made up word or two).
Of course, I also have to memorize my Google and PasswordSafe passwords, since writing those down would compromise the first two storage systems.
People should be made aware of all the tools available to properly manage tons of passwords. Not even going too deep into “passkey” stuff or any modern shenanigans, but a password manager used to generate random passwords for each separate sites is such a simple step.
I take a tiered approach: I use Chrome’s password manager for things I don’t care all that much about. I use PasswordSafe in a shared file in cloud storage for passwords that I care a bit more about. And for those very few that are incredibly important to me, I just memorize the password that’s usually made up of some long nonsense phrase (e.g. “apple youth brandish frobnitzer brainiac”) which has enough obscure words to necessitate a very hefty dictionary to crack (or even a made up word or two).
Of course, I also have to memorize my Google and PasswordSafe passwords, since writing those down would compromise the first two storage systems.