>two factor

Fat lotta fucking good that does you when hardly any place on the web uses it.

You just went full retard. Never go full retard.

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Typing in a 6 letter word that I remember is much quicker than opening a program, typing in my master password, finding the account that I want to log in to, clicking on the log-in button, then switching back to the browser. Even describing what you need to do is too long and complicated.

You know how I know you've never even /tried/ using a password manager?

Argument from complete ignorance is bad form, man.

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Ask for "inconsequential" slashdot password
Raymorris dodges it
Tells me "yelp password"
Go to yelp
Yelp requires email address as login
Look up raymorris' email on slashdot
(email not shown publicly)
Try various raymorris@$MAILPROVIDER via "lost password"
None exist, not the top 5 anyway.
Google search site:yelp.com "ray morris" or "raymorris"
Nothing.

Whatever, man.

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have you never heard of the very time-tested wisdom against putting all your eggs in one basket?

Have you ever heard of backups? For someone supposedly technically astute, you seem to have dropped that idea on the floor. I'll pick it up for you.

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I know it's poor form to bitch about moderation, but "offtopic?" Really?

It never crossed anyone's mind to type the name into a web browser? You know, just to make sure that it didn't link to something like lemonparty?

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So then tell me what your slashdot password is if it's that trivial.

I can be trusted. I have a 5 digit UID!

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Using a password manager makes it just as easy to have secure passwords as it is to have easy to remember passwords that you recycle everywhere.

And it fills them in for you, automagically, when you have to do the "new password" and "confirm new password" fields on a new site.

People complaining that password managers are complex never used one.

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Eric S. Raymond is crying in his beer about his "hotgirl69" problem.

Fuck'em.

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>CHERI processor

Really? Cheri?

http://cheri.com/ You have been promoted!

NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

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Lastpass fills in both the "new password" and "confirm new password" automagically after you've generated a secure password. This makes passwords for trivial sites even more trivial to use.

I cannot even imagine what I would have had to do when I had to re-set all my passwords one night and /didn't/ have a password manager to type all that shit in for me, including the "new password" and "confirm new password" fields. It would have taken half a day, but instead it only took one hour. And all that stuff is backed up offsite in a csv file in multiple locations.

Life is easier with a password manager. It literally is.

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Microsoft researchers have determined that reuse of the same password for low security services is safer than generating a unique password for each service.

This has to be a fucking joke. It has to be. bmo looks at calendar. Huh, it's not April 1.

And what, exactly, is a "low security service?" The only "low security service" I can possibly think of is stuff like Mailinator where you don't even use a password.

Remember when the entire Youporn chat login credentials file was leaked? You know, the one with real names, aliases, emails, and passwords in cleartext? Remember? Nearly every single password was usable on Facebook and the same password was reused in email.

People had fun with that. I was in /g/ when it happened. I laughed at the results.

Yahoo lost control of my fucking credentials twice showing logins from Romania and Sweden. I no longer use Yahoo Mail as a result, except as a throw-away, and the last time pushed me over the edge into using a password manager that holds -unique to every site- passwords that I can't even remember myself at 25 characters of complete ASCII gibberish. And you know what? It's easier on top of being more secure.

Lose control over your login credentials at one place, and the rest is vulnerable if you recycle them elsewhere. Password re-use over multiple sites is fucking bad. Anecdotes aren't data but I don't care about your calculations because my reality trumps your poorly researched paper.

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Two lions who, escaping from the zoo, split up to increase their chances but agree to meet after 2 months. When they finally meet, one is skinny and the other overweight. The thin one says: âoeHow did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me â" guns, nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass.â The fat one replies: âoeWell, I hid outside the door at One Microsoft Way and ate a manager a day. And nobody even noticed!â

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>naturalnews

You're a fucking moron.

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>tits and swords.

Since when are these items bad?

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...no match for Natural Stupidity.

I mean, just look around you.

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