Comment

Comment by ocdtrekkie

There is no reason anyone needs 100 different passwords and/or those passwords to rotate. This is terrible advice, you don't need it and you shouldn't do it.

As of current, haveibeenpwned hasn't found any breaches connected to my current email address, which I switched to around three years ago. Which is to highlight: Most breached password data is really, really old. A surprising number of breaches come via an email address I was only signing up for accounts on more than six or seven years ago.

Furthermore, most of your accounts don't matter. Things like your email, your bank, your web hosting, need to be secured well. An account you used once to sign up for a newsletter does not. Don't save your credit card info in every single web store you log into, and your security on those accounts don't matter either.

Focus your security and your password uniqueness and complexity on accounts that matter, and stop caring about ones that don't. People have reached security overload after being told all of their accounts must be secured, and then offloaded the problem to a bad solution.

parent ocdtrekkie 7 years ago

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton