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A new global survey sheds light on current user password practices, and shows that 25% of respondents reuse passwords across accounts.

Bitwarden surveyed 2,400 individuals from the US, UK, Australia, France, Germany, and Japan to investigate current user password practices. The survey shows that 25% of respondents globally reuse passwords across 11-20+ accounts, and 36% admit to using personal information in their credentials publicly accessible on social media (60%) platforms and online forums (30%). These practices reveal a significant gap between recommended security practices and actual user behavior, highlighting how weak password habits and password reuse … More → The post Most people still rely on memory or pen and paper for password management appeared first on Help Net Security.

  • @BatrickPatemanEnglish
    7•7 months ago

    Besides there being trustworthy ones, there is also the option to selfhost one and only expose the service to the WiFi. E. g. Bitwarden. Means you can only sync at home, but still better than a bloody text file.

    Or use Keepass for a filebased vault and sync that with Syncthing. With browser addons and autotype it is still way better than copy and pasting passwords from a file, using the clipboard.