LastPass simply keeps track and remembers it all for you.
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The fact that your email password is “Z26F2DWPrXux8XjzjDf5” and your bank account’s is “YwRJTNNVqBDcpj28dQ4U” is something you might never actually need to know yourself. In fact, you may never need to actually know any of your own passwords. I don’t mean let your browser remember passwords I mean invest in a tool like LastPass, which automatically remembers your passwords for you. Passwords should be unique, long, complex, and hard to guess - yet you need to remember them all. In an ideal world, your passwords would all be long and complex. In an ideal world, you would use a different password for every login. Even if service A, B, and C, all have perfect security, if you use the same password at all of them, as well as service “D”, which has poor security, your password for all has been discovered. Second, by using the same password everywhere, there are that many opportunities for your single password to be discovered. Chances are high they’ll hit one you use. Once they have a known good password, they can and do try it on dozens, if not hundreds, of online services.
Not knowing where your accounts are doesn’t stop them, either. If a hacker is able to get your password for one account, they can now run around and use that password on all your accounts. There are two risks when using only one password.įirst, if any of your accounts are compromised, all accounts are vulnerable. There are several approaches to password management that don’t require using one password everywhere, and also don’t require you to remember dozens, if not hundreds, of different passwords. The general consensus is that it significantly increases the risk of your accounts being compromised.
Yes, you can use the same password everywhere, but I really, really, don’t recommend it. Can you use the same password for everything you need one for? Having a lot of different ones is really hard to remember, to the point that I have had to write each one down.
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