My Deathbed, I Have One Regret: Not Spending More Time Resetting Passwords

Posted by zdw on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:27PM
from the mcsweeneys.net dept.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/on-my-deathbed-i-have-just-one-regret-not-spending-more-time-resetting-passwords

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Re:My Deathbed, I Have One Regret: Not Spending More Time Re... by thedudeabides5 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @05:18PM (#44067170)

"just use a password manager"

unless the password manager is down

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Re:My Deathbed, I Have One Regret: Not Spending More Time Re... by craftkiller on Thursday May 22, 2025 @05:34PM (#44067335)

I feel like I might be dating myself here, but there was once a time when we ran software on our computers: https://www.passwordstore.org/

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Re:My Deathbed, I Have One Regret: Not Spending More Time Re... by BenjiWiebe on Thursday May 22, 2025 @11:44PM (#44069681)

KeePassXC is my source of truth. On my PC only. I do also save most website passwords in Firefox, and use Firefox Sync to synchronize to my phone.

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Re:My Deathbed, I Have One Regret: Not Spending More Time Re... by az09mugen on Friday May 23, 2025 @09:22AM (#44072658)

KeepassXC as well, but I use syncthing fork to sync between my laptops and my android phone.

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Re:My Deathbed, I Have One Regret: Not Spending More Time Re... by Sloppy on Thursday May 22, 2025 @05:11PM (#44067071)

On my deathbed; "I wish I'd spent more time ranting about crappy software made by monopoly companies that just don't give a ... ack ... gasp xxxxxxxx"

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