Do you use one password for all your accounts?

[Anachiwo]

It's advised to have different passwords for all your online accounts in order to prevent having your accounts breached quickly. But I don't see having multiple passwords as being necessary because you have one password that's very strong and it will serve. My kind of person will forget all the passwords used if they are many and if I have them written down, it's no longer safe.

 

[Nomad]

I use different passwords for different sites. There is a danger in using one password for all accounts. In case your account gets hacked, the hacker will be able to access your other accounts as well. save passwords on my browser for ease of access.

 

[ClicketyKat]

I would never use the same password for any site!! My passwords are some of the strangest, most unmemorable things!! It would be difficult for any to crack them and no one could ever just guess them.

 

[Cory]

I try not to, but sometimes I slip and use ones I can remember at ease. For my more serious accounts, I always use a unique password.

 

[Shortie]

Being someone who had a memory like a fish, I tend to not like to use different passwords for all accounts as I would easily forget them. Instead I have a few different passwords that I know I will remember and I tend to use them on different accounts so that not all accounts have the same password. This has not caused any issues for me and it allows me to know that I won't forget my passwords easily by having loads of different ones that I know I will not remember.

 

[Heatman]

Yes, I make use of one password on all my accounts on forums. I don't see any reason why I should be using different password. I would end up getting confused on which one is for which forum. I can't keep resetting passwords all the time.

 

[MrChris]

Never. I even try to change up the email addresses as well.

 

[Cory]

I would end up getting confused on which one is for which forum.

Use a password manager like LastPass, that's what I use.

 

[Reverie]

I use different emails for things, different passwords for things as well. I like that forums keep you logged in so you don't have to recall what the password was.

 

[Arantor]

LastPass isn't secure, sorry, they've been broken into twice in the last 6 months.

As for using one password, that's a colossal security risk - and not the one you think it is. If that one password, that's used everywhere, is ever saved in a breakable format (spoiler: this happens more than you'd ever think it should), you're then at risk of that password making it to one of the breach dumps (spoiler: this also happens more than you'd ever think it should)

I suggest checking your email on haveibeenpwned.com and looking very, very carefully at any of the mentions of what breaches the account came up in. Depending on the service, the password may already be compromised and bad offenders may already *have* your password anyway.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I used to make this mistake, however now I use Firefox to come up with strong passwords for all my accounts across the web. It's much better to do this, you just never know when one of your accounts ends up in a security breach. I'm even weary of using password managers because they've been breached a few times.

 

[capnsquarepants]

I use Bitwarden, and have an annoyingly long passphrase to secure it. It’s super helpful because it also allows me to sync my passwords across devices

 

[Kyng]

I used to, but I don't any more.

Back when I did, it was probably my biggest vulnerability!

 

[guyyanthony]

i used to hands down, but not anyone all my passwords are extremely difficult for me to remember now ahha

 

[Cory]

LastPass isn't secure, sorry, they've been broken into twice in the last 6 months.

What password manager would you personally recommend?

 

[Tracy]

YubiKey NFC for the world!
I've got six of them (only 2 actually in use) and when the site allows pass keys, it's what I use. I still keep a complex password and haven't reused passwords for decades (that's what I have mSecure for).
YubiKey gives me an extra layer of protection, and I also use their 2FA ability for those sites that do not allow passkey.
DigitalPoints Security & Passkeys would be nice to have installed here.

 

[Tracy]

What password manager would you personally recommend?

I personally use mSecure... there are several options to save/sync your data, and the paid version allows you to install it (and sync) on multiple computers.
The other nice feature of it is you can also create custom entries.
I have tags for several different clients that I keep up with there server info (year put into service, make/model, service tag, login creds etc) and then do the same for other hardware. Makes it handy to find real quick.

 

[Arantor]

What password manager would you personally recommend?

Me, I'd probably recommend 1Pass, but there's various choices depending on what your needs are.

 

[Cory]

I personally use mSecure.

Never heard of this one, personally.

Me, I'd probably recommend 1Pass

I've seen this one highly promoted on the Apple App Store.

 

[Tracy]

Never heard of this one, personally.

It's really nice... not only can you keep stuff like passwords for websites, email and such, but you can extend it to keep stuff like inventory of important objects with custom created fields.
You can also add attachments (like invoices, images and such) to them.

Last time I checked (granted it's been a few years ago when I was deciding on what to use) 1Password/1Pass did not have the ability to create custom templates in their normal user level (business level I think they did). That may (and probably has) changed, but since I'm firmly in the mSecure environment I chose to stay with it since I didn't want to have to create all new templates and re-enter almost 700 entries (click on one and even more data is shown (MAC ID, DHCP/FIXED IP, MAC listed in DHCP etc), this is only what is visible upon listing page). I also like they allow you to run it on multiple devices and provide desktop for Windows, Mac, IOS and Android. Wish they had a Linux version... but there aren't a lot of us using it for desktop compared to the "big names".