That’s a feature. Use a randomly generated password for anything important. Store it in a password manager. Memorize only the password manager password.
Same thing happened with speed-dial and saved phone numbers.
When I was a kid people memorized the phone numbers of their friends and family. Hell, I still remember the numbers of the households of my childhood friends today!
One of my hobbies is changing my password on a device, saving it to that device, then having to change it again on another device because I can’t recall the password I set. And it magically disappeared in the device I saved it on.
This is why iPhones will occasionally disable facial recognition and make the user enter their unlock password to reenable it. It’s often enough to keep it in people’s memory without being so frequent that it becomes overly annoying.
That’s a good thing. You should be using randomly generated passwords except for the master password for your password manager. It should be a 4 word passphrase you can easily remember.
The point of a password manager is to only need to know one password to unlock the others. If all your passwords are different than getting one exposed due to a hack at some company, then I only need to change the one. It’s useless somewhere else.
The only password I remember is the master password to my password manager. Having long, unique, randomly generated passwords for each account is a lot more secure.
And with all those “gotta have a number, symbol, blood of a virgin harvested on a 4th full moon of the leap year plus one capital latter” password… all good they do is I dont remeber if I have a 1 or 2 and ! or ? jammed somewhere…
The scary part of this is how many people jump to say “use a password manager” as if that weren’t dystopian in itself… “Hey wanna use this product? Why don’t you buy that product so you can use this product? Would you like service with your product? How about some product-ception?”
I’m not saying don’t use password managers, as it’s nearly impossible to function in this society without them (that’s the dystopian part). Rather, I’m disconcerted about the level of casual upsell we’ve been programmed to accept in this day and age in order to access and interact with this current society… :/
I’ve always thought the main purpose of save my password programs and apps is helping you save time by not having to enter passwords repeatedly, not to help you remember passwords. As a backup, you can write down your passwords in a notebook.
I never got the point of a randomly generated password. Not because I don’t think it’s a good idea, but what if you want to sign in with a different device?
You have it saved on desktop, great, but what about when you want to log in on mobile? What if you’re out somewhere, forgot your phone and need to use someone else’s phone to access password related stuff?
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Yeah I have no idea what most of my passwords are anymore lmao. I just remember the important ones like bank/retirement stuff
That’s a feature. Use a randomly generated password for anything important. Store it in a password manager. Memorize only the password manager password.
Password Manager and especially face ID frees my brain for other things thankfully.
Same thing happened with speed-dial and saved phone numbers.
When I was a kid people memorized the phone numbers of their friends and family. Hell, I still remember the numbers of the households of my childhood friends today!
One of my hobbies is changing my password on a device, saving it to that device, then having to change it again on another device because I can’t recall the password I set. And it magically disappeared in the device I saved it on.
This is why iPhones will occasionally disable facial recognition and make the user enter their unlock password to reenable it. It’s often enough to keep it in people’s memory without being so frequent that it becomes overly annoying.
You should never need to memorize passwords- they belong in some kind of encrypted vault. Use a password manager
The best password is the one that you can’t remember.
Something happens with general knowledge and LLM usage. The dumbest era is just around the corner.
That’s a good thing. You should be using randomly generated passwords except for the master password for your password manager. It should be a 4 word passphrase you can easily remember.
That’s what I do for my Bitwarden vault.
Ah, the irony. I used the save my password function and now I can’t remember what I was trying to save in the first place. Thanks, technology.
The point of a password manager is to only need to know one password to unlock the others. If all your passwords are different than getting one exposed due to a hack at some company, then I only need to change the one. It’s useless somewhere else.
Bruh at this point my bank account is basically protected by the strength of my face and the hope my phone doesn’t die
big help for me epecially for important accts, sometimes i forgot my password
i always used the initals and serial numbers of yugioh cards
since ill never forget my favourite cards
The only password I remember is the master password to my password manager. Having long, unique, randomly generated passwords for each account is a lot more secure.
And with all those “gotta have a number, symbol, blood of a virgin harvested on a 4th full moon of the leap year plus one capital latter” password… all good they do is I dont remeber if I have a 1 or 2 and ! or ? jammed somewhere…
The scary part of this is how many people jump to say “use a password manager” as if that weren’t dystopian in itself… “Hey wanna use this product? Why don’t you buy that product so you can use this product? Would you like service with your product? How about some product-ception?”
I’m not saying don’t use password managers, as it’s nearly impossible to function in this society without them (that’s the dystopian part). Rather, I’m disconcerted about the level of casual upsell we’ve been programmed to accept in this day and age in order to access and interact with this current society… :/
True, but why unironically? Isn’t this ironic?
i ride with no password saving, no history, autofill nor favorites
I have passwords that I have never even seen due to my password manager.
Best decision ever on the computer. I tend to not let the browser remember passwords. That’s just a leak vector at that point.
Also, having an old random account’s password is just nice.
I’ve always thought the main purpose of save my password programs and apps is helping you save time by not having to enter passwords repeatedly, not to help you remember passwords. As a backup, you can write down your passwords in a notebook.
I never got the point of a randomly generated password. Not because I don’t think it’s a good idea, but what if you want to sign in with a different device?
You have it saved on desktop, great, but what about when you want to log in on mobile? What if you’re out somewhere, forgot your phone and need to use someone else’s phone to access password related stuff?