Finally caved on using a password manager last week

My buddy Matt showed me his setup after I watched him log into 5 accounts in 10 seconds. He let me test it on my phone and I was sold when it filled in my bank login automatically. Anyone else hold out for years before switching?

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fiona_murphy12d ago

Yeah I was one of those people too, kept saying I didn't need one because I could remember all my passwords. But then I read this article about how most data breaches happen because people reuse passwords across sites and I got a little paranoid. I finally switched about a year ago after my email got hacked from using the same password everywhere. It's honestly scary how many accounts I had with the same password. Once you get past the initial setup it's actually way less stressful.

sarah_mason12d ago

I don't know, I still don't use one and I'm fine. I have a system where I keep a physical notebook with my passwords written down. It's locked in a drawer and I'm the only one who touches it. Way harder to hack a piece of paper than some cloud server. I get that reusing passwords is bad but I just use a few different patterns that only make sense to me. Honestly I feel like password managers are just creating a single point of failure. If someone gets into that one master password you're done for.