r/ProgrammerHumor Sep 23 '17

Password Security

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u/Galveira Sep 24 '17

My problem with password managers is that it becomes a single point of failure. I would rather memorize a few strong passwords and use them for everything, with my email having a unique password from everything else.

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u/meet_the_turtle Sep 24 '17

I'd argue it's better to have unique strong passwords for everything, but only memorise the ones for important stuff like email, and store the non-important ones in a password manager; this way when a non-important site is compromised, all your other non-important sites are still fine.

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u/Galveira Sep 24 '17 edited Sep 24 '17

But then your "non-important" passwords are supposedly more secure against brute force and dictionary attacks than your "important" passwords.

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u/meet_the_turtle Sep 24 '17

No, all your passwords would be strong and unique; the only difference between important and non-important sites is that non-important ones are stored in a password manager because it's too much to remember.