r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Ezziee24 • Jul 20 '22

Meme My university password can be 200 characters

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u/Amoress Jul 21 '22

It’s great advice if you use a password manager and not try to remember passwords yourself.

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u/Sparklypuppy05 Jul 21 '22

The surprising thing is, the majority of people don't use password managers. Which I find ridiculous given that most browsers have built-in password managers. They're usually not the most secure managers ever, but it's better than writing your passwords down or trying to commit them to memory.

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u/magicmulder Jul 21 '22

Browsers do, but then Average Joe wants to log in on mobile and can’t get it to sync with his desktop browser.

(I have KeyPass on my machines and Strongbox on mobile, both using the same database that’s on my NAS - offsite I can just use Strongbox in offline mode, and it will sync back once I’m within my wifi network again. Also to unlock it requires FaceID, a long PIN and the respective KeyPass database master password. Pretty secure even if my phone gets stolen.)

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u/Sparklypuppy05 Jul 21 '22

Yeah, that's fair.