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I was dead wrong about password managers for years
For the longest time I thought password managers were just another thing to hack or a way for some company to collect your data. I used the same basic password for everything because I figured remembering one long phrase was safer than trusting some app. Then my email got compromised six months ago when I used that same password on a random forum that got breached. It took me three days to lock down my accounts and change everything. A buddy who works in IT finally convinced me to try Bitwarden, and I set it up in about twenty minutes. Now I have thirty different passwords that are all random gibberish and I don't even have to think about them. Has anyone else had that moment where they finally gave in and realized the tool actually works better than your old system?
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the_lisa1mo ago
Honestly that whole "one strong password is safer" thing was exactly what I thought too. I used the same password for like ten years and just added a number at the end whenever a site forced me to change it. Then my Spotify got hacked and someone was playing music in a different country on my account and I realized how dumb that logic was. Bitwarden ended up being the one for me as well, I just use the free version and it works fine for everything I need. The weirdest part was how fast I got used to it, after like a week I stopped even thinking about my old system. Now I actually sleep better knowing I don't have a single point of failure across every account I own.
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