I finally get why people use password managers now

I used to think password managers were overkill. Like just write down your passwords in a notebook right? But last month my buddy Mark who works IT at a hospital showed me how he almost got his bank account drained because he reused a password from some old forum. He said one breach can expose everything if you reuse passwords. I watched him set up Bitwarden in like 5 minutes and saw how it generates random passwords for every site. Now I'm halfway through switching all my accounts. Did you all have a hard time convincing friends to switch?

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the_fiona2mo ago

My last password was Password123 and I'm not proud of that.

henderson.wesley2mo ago

My last password was something like "dogsrule" for way too long. I only changed it after my brother guessed it in one try and logged into my Netflix. Password123 is rough but at least you're owning up to it now.

pat_coleman1mo ago

lol "dogsrule" is honestly better than Password123 tho. But yeah, having your bro guess it in one try is a wakeup call. What worked for me was just using a password manager plus a random phrase I made up that's dumb but only makes sense to me. Like "bluecouchpizzafrog" or something random like that. Way easier than trying to remember a bunch of symbols and numbers.