A colleague told me my password manager was worse than nothing

I used to keep all my passwords in a text file on my desktop. One guy I work with saw it over my shoulder and said that's basically an invitation to get hacked. He showed me how to set up Bitwarden in about 10 minutes. Now I have unique passwords for every site and I don't have to remember any of them. Has anyone else had a rude awakening about their password habits?

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richard_roberts804mo ago

Bitwarden specifically saved me after I got locked out of my own email because I couldn't remember the password I'd reused on some random forum. The auto-fill on my phone alone made it worth it, I'd never go back to memorizing stuff or writing them down.

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perez.christopher4mo ago

You know what's wild though? I've noticed this same pattern with people and their Netflix accounts, or even their gym memberships. Everyone's got that one login they've reset a dozen times because they keep using the same old trick. It's like we're all just one forgotten password away from a total digital lockdown, but we keep doing the same thing anyway. Bitwarden's a great fix for that, but I've also seen folks just switch to a simpler system like a dedicated notebook that never leaves their desk. Whatever works, right? The real lesson here is that our brains just aren't built to juggle 50 different passwords, and that's not our fault.

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