• Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Passwords are a piece of piss. But thats cos I grew up having to not only remember between 10 and 13 digit phone numbers, but also assign them to different people. I use that part of my brain now as a password manager… lol.

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      8 hours ago

      Your passwords definitely arent secure enough then. Unless you have a fucking eidetic memory. Its not just remembering passwords, its remembering which passwords go with what. I straight up dont believe you if you tell me you have 30 different completely random alphanumeric 15 character strings locked into your brain and can reliably remember which one goes with which. And if your passwords are less than that, or if you use the same password but with slight differences, or if you have some sort of ‘system’ youre just asking to be hacked. Just use a damn password manager.

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        5 hours ago

        30 different completely random alphanumeric 15 character strings

        I mean, that’s great and all, but I’m pretty sure my 65 character sentence with a foreign punctuation is even better than that. I probably have somewhere around 30 of those memorized. Probably more if you include the throwaway accounts and not just my real ones.

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          5 hours ago

          Wow your brain is miraculous, im totally blown away by the amazing feat that you achieved that could have easily been done with zero effort by a password manager. Youre like those guys that memorize pi to the 5555th digit. Like congratulations, thats fucking useless.

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        8 hours ago

        Its absolutely fine if you dont believe me, chief. But I spent the first 20 years of my life doing that very thing. 10 to 13 digits assigned to different people and locations. All wildly different from each other. Im not the only one. Most people my age and older developed this skill. And they still use it. In fact, most of us, can still remember the phone numbers from the 80s and 90s as well. We are rain man when it comes to this shit lol.

        Dont be jelly…

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          5 hours ago

          Yeah i grew up with telephones too, its not the same thing. Memorizing a string of numbers is vastly different from remembering a truly random string, and if your passwords are just numbers then youre gonna get hacked at some point. Good luck though. Also every boomer that ever lived probably knew more phone numbers than you at one point but they all still have 12345 or some equivalent written on a sticky note somewhere so im not sure why you think that thats equivalent.

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                3 hours ago

                Oh buddy, you are. I mean, why would I lie about that??? If I was going to lie about something, Id say I have a really small cock… lol

                After this conversation is done, we wont ever speak again. So… what would be the point of this? What possible gain is there to lie about this to someone I wont speak to again? The answer is none. But there plenty of reasons for you to want, or need this to be a lie. And thats kinda sad…