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#304627 22-May-2023 08:13
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Saw this question on Hacker News today, so decided to check... "How many passwords do you have?"

 

Here is my current number:

 

 

Also, someone mentioned to me "x personal, z work" so I am thinking of personal accounts - anyone with access to external clients' account could get this number into thousands...

 

 




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  #3078467 22-May-2023 08:26
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Bitwarden says 938, but I need to clean out a few dregs.




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  #3078476 22-May-2023 08:48
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272 Personal accounts and 51 corporate accounts. I use folder in Bitwarden to separate personal and business accounts.

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  #3078477 22-May-2023 08:50
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I'm still loading details into the manager i chose....this could take some time

 

 




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  #3078483 22-May-2023 09:06
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1,084. Though I have some still in KeePass I haven't moved over yet. Most of the passwords are unique, BitWarden features are helping me find and remove duplicates. I removed some duplicates last week, including closing some accounts I don't use any more.

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  #3078493 22-May-2023 09:47
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Still more tho that BitWarden does not have 

 

 




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  #3078496 22-May-2023 09:51
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Dozens.  I have different password for very website and they are all impossible to remember.

 

I keep a cryptic physical record of one password in a hard-to-find place.  If I ever lose access to my password manager, that's my way back in.




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  #3078518 22-May-2023 11:44
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I guess technically I have one.

Bitwarden however, has many more!

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  #3078534 22-May-2023 12:05
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I have found that "password" works.😇 😀




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  #3078617 22-May-2023 13:42
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MikeB4:

 

I have found that "password" works.😇 😀

 

 

Too obvious.  Capitalise the P and change that a to an "@" and noone will ever crack it.




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  #3078694 22-May-2023 15:42
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373 in Keepass so far. Needs a cleanout of old unused ones, some last used in 2011!

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  #3078699 22-May-2023 15:57
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Aw, gee, I only have 149!

 

And there will be a few I could purge if I was brave.

 
 
 
 

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  #3078701 22-May-2023 16:07
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About 150 that I have used in the past 6 months. About 500 in total over the last 10 years.

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  #3078703 22-May-2023 16:15
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450ish, but that has lots of admin/admin and other stuff saved for defaults that have been changed. really should clean it out.




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  #3078704 22-May-2023 16:15
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1029 stored, lots of those are duplicates to different sub-domains with the same account or the ten different routers I've had over the years that all used 192.168.86.1.

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  #3078708 22-May-2023 16:22
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richms:

 

450ish, but that has lots of admin/admin and other stuff saved for defaults that have been changed. really should clean it out.

 

 

I think it's well worth having a six-monthly cull.  Every account is a weak point just waiting for a data breach.  I tend to delete accounts I'm not using quite actively and change passwords on accounts without 2FA at least once per year.

 

I've seriously thought about changing the email address I use for non-2FA logins at the same time.  With gmail it's easy enough to delete an address and get a new one with google to keep the changes rolling.




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