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AverageLiberalJoe t1_j250f11 wrote

Reply to comment by vAltyR47 in Ring Doorbell Cams Hijacked By Assholes To Provide Live Streams Of SWATtings by _m3r1u5_

Might be 101 stuff but almost literally nobody does it because every single website wants you to give them an email/pass combo which is near impossible for any consumer to keep track of. What we need the gov to do is create incentives for most companies to drop asking/storing passwords and do 2fa right out of the gate. And it needs to be a gotojail crime to store an unencrypted password period.

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SafariNZ t1_j2613wt wrote

Apple suggests unique passwords every time you set one up for a new site, they even supply one with loads of numbers and characters and then save it for you. Very similar to stand alone password managers.

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welcome2mycesspool t1_j27wwkl wrote

I feel like as time goes on, more and more people are moving to password managers so they can use a different, and much more secure password for each account. I know when I used to see ads for password managers back in like 2018 I thought no way I'd ever use a password manager as it seemed like a great inconvenience.

I tried out Bitwarden in 2021 because I found my info in a couple data breaches (gov. sites where you could look yourself up to see if you were affected)

It was a hassle at first to change the info for all of my important accounts, then I just kept changing the less important ones as I needed to sign into them, after 6 months I had no use for the dozens of passwords and combinations that I had stored in my head. It was relieving. And now, my phone can even autofill from Bitwarden just like Apple keychain.

Heck, even my mom is on the password manager wave now after having her... yahoo account hacked.

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