r/mildlyinfuriating • u/King_Baboon • Mar 08 '16

Overdone Fuck it, hackers win.

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u/hrbuchanan Mar 08 '16

Those are the sort of passwords that are great to use as a backup when another authentication method is readily available (biometric scanner, key-based, etc), or if you're using an incredibly reliable password manager. For something that people actually need to type... why?!

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u/hewholaughs Mar 08 '16

I don't see it ever being great, if you can't remember the password then it's a bad password. What happens if the biometric scanner breaks?

Like XKCD demonstrated, passphrases are the way to go. Something that's easy to type, remember and replaceable.

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u/hrbuchanan Mar 08 '16

It can become a problem when you have a lot of accounts to keep credentials for, especially if you don't want the same password for all of them, which is usually a bad idea. I'm a sysadmin and my password manager has 109 sets of credentials, so making unique memorable passwords isn't an option.

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u/JoseJimeniz Mar 09 '16

The downside of the password manager is when you lose all your passwords.

Oh well. Too bad. Should have had better backups