Showerthought: my friend in Austin got his Instagram hacked last month because he reused a password.

He says a password manager is overkill, but I think it's basic now. Where do you stand on using them for everything?

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Oh man, calling a password manager overkill is wild to me. It's like saying a lock on your front door is extra. My buddy had his bank account drained from a reused password on some dumb gaming forum. Remembering one master phrase is way easier than fifty different codes, or getting your stuff stolen.

kai_webb9123d ago

Just use "password123" for everything, what could go wrong.

ray_williams23d ago

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt (and the fraud alert texts). Used the same easy password on a few sites years back, and one of them got hacked. Took weeks to sort out the mess. Downloading a free password manager was the easiest fix ever. Now it makes all my crazy strong passwords and fills them in for me. It's just less stress.

ivan_murphy8023d ago

My old email got popped from a dumb data leak, switching to a manager saved me a ton of headaches.