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by BHSPitMonkey 1066 days ago
What's the harm in giving some sketchy site a unique, random password only used with that site? (In contrast to letting them have your Google profile and all that comes with it)
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The need to retain one unique random password per site (as opposed to having one extremely secure Gmail password with two factor authentication attached to it).

It's the old twin airplane principal from the hacker's dictionary: the virtue of putting all your eggs in one basket if the basket is built very well.