Get a password manager. It’s a lot more secure and easier to only have to remember one strong main password and have the rest randomly generated
^ I love Bitwarden
Finally can’t take it anymore
Downloads a Password Manager
Password Manager: “Please create a unique master password to begin”
BatmanSupermanSpidermanCaptainAmerica@2025
Just 4 characters are enough. And it includes Cap.
!!! PASSWORD TOO WEAK !!! - your password must contains upper and lowercase characters, digits and symbols except not a hyphen for some fucking reason, and no characters you’ve ever used in past passwords and no digits that are in your postal code, data of birth, or shoe size. Zalgo text is acceptable.
For everybody commenting on passwords manager, I’ve been using one for years now and I feel this so bad. My company has a password policy of changing the LAPTOP’s password every 8 weeks and you can’t reuse any of the last 10 passwords used. I hate it because I can’t use a password manager to unlock my laptop and I’m so used to password managers by now that it’s getting really hard to come up with new passwords that follow the stupid requirements and even worse remembering them. I’m veeeery close to just start noting them down in a notebook by my machine and then send a picture to our security guy to show him where he has gotten us all to
You should do that unironically. The current best practices advises against frequent password changes for exactly that reason.
My company has a password policy of changing the LAPTOP’s password every 8 weeks and you can’t reuse any of the last 10 passwords used.
There are more than 10 symbols, so just rotate through them. If your org doesn’t respect you enough to have reasonable password rotations, I wouldn’t bother spending much time coming up with new ones and just modify your current to pass the minimums.
Some$$Word12
Some&&Word11
Some–Word10Etc
I save it my password manager and can pull it on other devices. Still annoying, but not the worst. Honestly the worst is passwords with a character limit, and even worse when it’s “small” like 16
I do agree that’s a particular case that can’t be solved by a password manager. But it’s all the more reason to use one elsewhere to reduce how many you need to remember.
I have to remember only 3 secure passwords. My personal computer, my work account, and my password manager. Those are the only three I have to type in manually. And because they’re secure and unique, for stupid work password change requirements I just increment the last character.
If you don’t want to use a password manager it’s not that hard to create long passwords. Just create a nonsense sentence with a misspelling with a character between each word and add some obscure personal info that isn’t directly linked to you, like a phone number of an old childhood friend or pizza place you used to call often when you were young so it’s easy to remember but not info another person can find about you. Then add a special character.
Like:
Wideo1Pasta1Is1The1Grawy1555-22334!!!
I like pass phrases… if you can’t think of anything, grab a random book, open to a random page, and find a memorable phrase that catches your eye. Change some letters to numbers and/or add symbols if you think you need to.
Ah yeah ok I got you covered
RasputiaSalmon87876@
There you go, real easy.
TheDoctor&CaptainJack
16 characters and a cap
Huh, I only see ****************
Just add one to the number each time.
I’m on “[passwordiveusedforyears]22!” at work.
For otherwebsites I’m on things like “[passwordIveusedforyears][websitename]!”
Proper 2FA is secure enough for most people to keep using the same password so long as it hasn’t been compromised. And a few things, like work passwords, email passwords, and bank passwords should be unique to thaspecific account.
Really, the biggest security hole is requiring logins for fucking everything. That’s why there’s a million password leaks. Why does a news website need me to sign in? Why do I need an account and password to order a pizza that I’m gonna pay for in-person?
What? No punctuation marks? Special characters like !@#$%^&*()_+?
It’s not so bad once you develop a system.
And in six weeks… It’s time to change your password! No repeats.
That’s why I let Firefox make the passwords for me. It’s nice because they sync with my phone, so I don’t have to run to my PC to look up a password.
I can remember like 5 passwords. My computer password, my work computer password, my trash everything password and my password vault password. I know that’s only 4, but I still remember my last vault password, so that one counts twice
Everything else is some random shit that I bitch about entering manually when pasting doesn’t work.
Use a password manager. Problem solved.
and my password vault password
Use a password manager
Lol
Ok fair I didn’t read that far. Still, I think my point is valid, at least a little
I just started merging 3 common passwords I use through my life in chronological order. It’s a 32 letter behemoth with lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and symbols. All in random patterns.
The middle password is one that I started using 2 years ago when I wanted a new password for my new OS installation called FreeBSD at the time. It had numbers and symbols but also “Frbsd” to stand for that name.
Now when I am signing up to a new service I change that portion in the middle of the 32 letter password so “…Frbsd…” becomes “…Gthb…” or “…Dscrd…” etc.
This way even if someone finds my password for gml it won’t work for others either.
