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TIL reusing passwords across accounts is basically handing hackers the keys to my whole digital life
I found out last week when a friend got phished on a sketchy forum, and the same email/password combo unlocked their Netflix, Amazon, and even their bank's login page (they got lucky nothing got drained), so why do we keep doing this even though we know better?
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ryan_nguyen11d ago
The same email/password combo unlocked their Netflix, Amazon, and even their bank's login page" - so after that close call, what's actually stopped you from changing your own password habits?
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roberts.troy11d ago
Bro @ryan_nguyen that's the thing man, I was exactly the same way until my buddy's story freaked me out. I just bit the bullet and got a password manager, one of the free ones, but the real game changer was using the "strong password" generator every time I sign up for something new. Now I don't even know what my Netflix password is, it's just some random jumble of letters and numbers. My bank and email are the only ones I actually remember, and those have different passwords too. It took me like an afternoon to change everything but now I don't lose sleep over it lol.
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