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comment by insomniasexx

True - also remember that if you used the same password in a few places, you need to change all of them. That means if you used password 123456 on a random forum 4 years ago, and also use 123456 as your password for banking, you're still potentially screwed. I'm waiting a couple more days and redoing them all. I just did this 3 months ago. What a pain in the ass.





Complexity  ·  3877 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have a metric ArseTon (SI Units) of pass phrases for a bastardardy of sites collected in the last few years. Like kleinbl00 I run my own mailserver alongside Google hosted stuff and at last count I have upwards of 400 separate email addresses for 400 separate sites/services.

This could be a the moment to bite the bullet and move as much as I can over to 2-factor auth, at least for the large entities like Google and anything else which will let me.

kleinbl00  ·  3877 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm going over to random hashes. Ugh. Goodbye human-parseable passwords.

kleinbl00  ·  3877 days ago  ·  link  ·  

According to 1Password, I have:

- 281 logins stored

- 206 that are duplicates

- 44 that are weak

- 279 that need to be changed

That "279" and "281" were both "281" yesterday. But after twenty minutes, I had successfully changed three passwords.