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Re:Authentication Cheat Sheet by stouset on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @12:57AM (#8989083)
Why are you not already using a password manager? They have existed in fantastically-useful form for probably well over five years now.

If a password is easy to remember, it is easy to guess, and if you reuse a password it's likelihood of being compromised increases dramatically.

There is no simple solution for this problem. Password managers make the best of a crappy and likely unavoidable situation.

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Re:Authentication Cheat Sheet by AndrewDucker on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @06:51AM (#8989838)
Because I cannot install applications on my work PC. Which means that I have to sit there carefully copying long strings from my phone to my PC if I want to log into a site at work.

Which is frankly more effort than I can be bothered with.

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