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c/cybersecurity-tips•gracec16gracec16•3mo ago

Shoutout to the IT guy who showed me his password manager setup at the Denver conference

He pulled up his phone and said 'see, one master password for everything else, and I use a 12 word phrase from a song lyric I made up' which finally got me to stop reusing my dog's name with numbers.
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jenny47
jenny471mo ago
Totally feel this, that fake song lyric trick is genius and way easier to remember than random garbage. Did switching actually make you feel less paranoid about your old passwords?
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oliverhernandez
That "song lyric you made up" part is the real genius move.
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iris927
iris9273mo ago
Remember that time a friend tried to convince everyone his dad wrote the "smooth criminal" bassline? He even hummed this made-up funky part. We believed him for like a year until someone actually played the song.
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grays13
grays133mo ago
That kid had us all fooled, and @oliverhernandez is right about the fake lyrics being the best part.
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