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.
If you’re writing down your passwords for personal use, and you keep them collected in a notebook or something you’re fine. If a bad guy has broken in to your home where they would have physical access to your notebook, then you have much bigger security problems than having your passwords compromised. Keeping a physical notebook of passwords would be much safer than keeping them in a file on your computer.
Password reuse is a much bigger security problem than writing your passwords down.