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by linsomniac 2780 days ago
Memorizing your passwords seems impossible to me. The passwords I've put in my new password vault over the last year probably number in the mid 3 digits, and I don't really think I have THAT big an online footprint. So either: You share passwords among sites (which I never do) or you have a WAY better memory than I do. Or, I guess, you just use the password reset a lot?

Here are some things that make it really hard to remember all the passwords I need to:

- One bank requires me to change my password every month that I login. Don't even get me started.

- Many sites require 3-5 "security questions", which I consider to be effectively passwords and generate/manage them as such.

- Different sites have different allowed formulas of what they require for passwords

Memorizing passwords seems like a recipe for reuse of the same passwords on multiple sites, which is terrible.