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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis... by mcv on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @05:14PM (#6850731)
One of my addresses was also in the Adobe breach. No idea what password I used there, but I'm fairly sure it must have been either my common "junk" password, shared with tons of forums, but nothing that poses any serious risk to me (just to those forums). Or if they had stricter requirements, some variation on it that I always forget, so I have to ask them for a new password every time anyway.

I certainly don't reuse financial or email passwords. Or actually I do, but only for financial and email stuff. But I probably shouldn't reuse them at all.

But those forums? I'm just not going to keep track of a new password for every site I visit.

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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis... by bigiain on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @05:47PM (#6851028)
If you're using a forum, outré in front of a computer. Keeping track of things is one of the things computers are _best_ at. Get yourself a password manager. I use 1Password, but I hear good things about KeyPass and LastPass too.

Seriously - you can't manage 2013 grade password complexity requirements for all the places you need passwords in your head any more (it's likely you never could…)

Get a tool to help, computers are wonderful tools.

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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis... by mcv on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @06:25PM (#6851295)
I've got KeePass, but I haven't used it remotely as long as I've used many websites. Also, I don't have my KeePass DB in Dropbox, so I can't access it from other computers.

More than that, I'd rather not put my KeePass DB on someone else's machine in the first place. But I'll easily trust strange computers with a password for some crappy forum.

There's always something you risk compromising. I prefer some forum account to be compromised.

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