For the longest time, I didn't see the point in getting a password manager. It just seemed like one more place to have your passwords stolen, except this time, it would be ALL your passwords instead of one at a time. When I read about the data breach at LastPass, I thought I was right.

However, now my logins are getting unwieldy. I'm doing more things on the internet, each with a new login. I'm beginning to lose track of them all. Most of them are pretty inconsequential, so I'm more willing to put those logins into something like a password manager.

I read this post

but it was written a while ago.

Anyone have any recommendations for a specific password manager or just about password managers in general?

rthomas6:

As an alternative to a password manager, have you considered making a unique login for each website based on some algorithm? Most of my logins share a pattern, but they are unique, and they don't contain any part of the website's name, though I do use the name to generate the password.

This way, I can remember all my passwords without a manager, but they are all unique, contain several symbols, and long.


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