Why are password managers considered good security practice when they provide a single entry for an attacker to get all of your credentials?
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My password manager generates all my passwords. They’re all random, upper and lower case, numerals and special characters and 16 characters long unless a website doesn’t allow that. This means that my passwords are very difficult to crack and I don’t need to worry about them being memorable to me. If somebody gets their hands on one password, they won’t be able to work out the rest.
My password manager has a fifty character password, all lower case so I can quickly type it on a phone keyboard. It’s very memorable to me but not to anybody else so it should be very difficult to crack. It’s easy enough for me to come up with one of these at a time but would be next to impossible for me to come up with enough to cover all my important logins (that and many websites would never allow a password that long or which only had lower case characters).
So you’re trading having to memorise lots of less secure passwords for not having to remember any or your very secure passwords apart from the one you use to get to the others
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