• moonmeow
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    8 months ago

    Yes that’s definitely a concern to keep in mind.

    The problem is that if someone doesn’t use a password manager they’re morenlikely to reuse weak ones.

    Using a password manager is a better path, as long as there is awareness on how to keep it secured.

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      8 months ago

      I use the same password for every site, but I put the name of the site at the end of the password.
      For example:
      NotmypassB3ta.
      NotmypassGoogle.
      NotnypassLemmy. Etc.
      I figure it might stop the most lazy of attacks.

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        8 months ago

        It will stop a lot of attacks but if someone figures it out, you’re screwed. So I don’t recommend it.

        But years ago I used the same password everywhere except with a few differences due to different requirements (like special characters) and the weakest passwords I used got leaked on pastebin (or similar). And sure enough many accounts got compromised, not a huge deal and I didn’t lose anything I cared about.

        The interesting part is that no-one seemed to try the leaked password + 1234 or a capital letter in the beginning.

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        8 months ago

        That sounds not ya I’m sure it stops a , as long as the actual password is also strong. IMO there’s still some vulnerability. If someone finds out your password and notices thepattern ‘pass+Site’, then they mighttryyon another site.

        Also why it’s a good idea to have a few emails yo use across multiple sites.

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        8 months ago

        I had something similar but ran into issues with sites requiring specific symbols, disallowing certain symbols and limiting lengths or similar

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          That annoys me so much. Especially when the randomly generated line noise password I’m using doesn’t happen to include one of the three punctuation characters they need to be “secure”.