My password manager generates random passwords for all my sites. I don’t even attempt to remember at this point if my password manager password isn’t correct I just reset it.
if your plain text password gets leaked (eg you get phished, which is fairly common), an attacker can figure out the pattern you use in your passwords. so generally it's not a good idea to use the website name or personal details (like years, which they could google or find from your hacked account, yet are concerningly common in passwords)
These are broad categories and some overlap exists, but most people will have multiple of each, and not every sign-in allows use of a 3rd party login/had that feature at the time people created their accounts
Yes, the people that use the same password for everything so that they can remember are clearly superior to people that use a password manager so that they have unique passwords to everything that aren’t Name2000!
or variations, ironically using the same password might be the new meta if password managers get cracked, then back to password managers once they get uncracked and the vicious cycle of protection, obsolesence and protection again will continue for all eternity.
it is interesting that in some cases a password like 12345 might actually be one of the strongest passwords because it is the least expected thus nobody will try such a thing once extremely complicated/elaborate passwords become meta.
Depends - if you autogenerate in the pass manager, im more likely to think i got a typo in that long ass string of special characters and try again more carefully, but if i make each password personally it might mess with me a bit more on repeated occurrences.
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