Tulsi Gabbard, now the US director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts including a personal Gmail account and Dropbox over a period of years, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal.
This reads as sarcastic to me, but I and many others legitimately do, through the use of a password manager. I have an encrypted database that syncs between my phone, laptop, and a vps, and I occasionally manually back up to a free email account. I only need to remember the one password to unlock the db.
Having used KeePass for a few years, syncing via a self-hosted SFTP server, I can’t recommend it for most people.
It’s too technical, especially if you want sync, but even if you don’t
Apps on different platforms don’t quite agree with each other in all ways, making syncing a bit annoying (particularly: how to associate a login with multiple URLs)
It can be hard to pick which app to use on each platform, other than Windows, because there’s no official/canonical best option (Mono has lots of drawbacks)
I’ve switched to Bitwarden and I’m sticking with it.
I totally have unique passwords for all my hundreds of accounts around the internet.
This reads as sarcastic to me, but I and many others legitimately do, through the use of a password manager. I have an encrypted database that syncs between my phone, laptop, and a vps, and I occasionally manually back up to a free email account. I only need to remember the one password to unlock the db.
What I’m saying is that I don’t criticize others for something I do myself - that would be hypocritical.
Being hypocritical reflects bad on you. But that does not mean it is bad advice.
The standard user cannot comprehend that Bitwarden is less than $1 a month and totally worth every cent.
Or that keepass is free and you can use any number of sync methods
Having used KeePass for a few years, syncing via a self-hosted SFTP server, I can’t recommend it for most people.
I’ve switched to Bitwarden and I’m sticking with it.