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No, the point is, people without a password manager tend to use the same password for every account. So you steal the bank password, and it opens your email, fa
by normloman 11y ago
No, the point is, people without a password manager tend to use the same password for every account. So you steal the bank password, and it opens your email, facebook, and everything else. Hundreds of failure points. With a password manager, there is just one.
- rphlx 11y agoHuman nature being what it is, a large fraction of password-manager users probably also reuse passwords, or nearly reuse them, which is nearly as bad. With the password manager being there for cases where some BOFH admin required two relatively-prime numbers, plus three non-adjacent capital letters, plus at least one special character that's not a star, plus a final character that's not a lower case letter, plus uniqueness with respect to your previous 100 passwords, plus a length of at least 12 characters, plus a change every 14 days.