Thread:JoshuaJSlone/@comment-5116276-20170514155227/@comment-131168-20170514231621

I used to be a person who used the same password everywhere for simplicity, but then when a hack at site A allowed someone to log in as me at site B, it became clear how dumb a thing that was. But remembering completely unique passwords for different places would also be crazy, so what I do now is follow a pattern, where part of it is based on the site or service involved. As long as I know it's "Wikia" or "eBay" or "Hello! Online" or whatever I can remember it easily enough without them all being identical. I suppose there's the risk someone could reverse engineer my pattern, but I guess they'd really have to be wanting me specifically to put that much time into it. The only problem is remembering when certain places have demands like "must use a capital letter" or "must use a symbol" or something.