Read a report that said most people reuse the same password across 5 different sites

I was looking at a security study from a group called the Online Trust Alliance yesterday. They found that the average person uses one password for about five different accounts. That means if one site gets hacked, five accounts are at risk. I checked my own password manager and realized I was doing the same thing with my old email password. How do you guys keep track of all your unique passwords without getting overwhelmed?

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willow_reed1mo ago

Oh perfect, so my entire digital life is basically a house of cards. I just write them all down on a sticky note under my keyboard like a normal person.

robert_green1mo ago

House of cards" is right. My buddy Mike did the sticky note thing under his keyboard for years. He came home one day to find his new puppy had chewed the note to bits. He spent the entire weekend locked out of his email, his bank, everything, trying to get it all back. He uses a password manager now.

max_kelly301mo ago

Look at it this way. A sticky note under the keyboard is at least offline. It can't get hacked in a data breach like some cloud service. My uncle still does it and has never had a pet or a cleaning lady mess with it. Sometimes the low-tech fix is the safest one.