[anons2011]

>You have to be kidding me? Do I really need to start using unique passwords on every site that I use?

Errr, ...yes!

[mun2mun]

For this reason Facebook connect/Twitter login are becoming popular. 1password, lastpass, keypass etc are not that popular among casual users.

[bluetidepro]

I already do to an extent but come on, you can't tell me you use a completely unique password for EACH of the HUNDREDS of sites that use passwords? That just seems ridiculous, or maybe it's just me...

[kristofferR]

Get LastPass (it's free and totally safe since it's client-side encrypted), but if you don't want that you can just use SuperGenPass.

http://lastpass.com/ http://supergenpass.com/

[Wilya]

There are quite a few ways to automate that. Lastpass, Keepass, KeepassX, 1Password, ...

[lparry]

1Password (https://agilebits.com/onepassword) is your friend

[dredmorbius]

I do just that.

Between work and personal, roughly 130 password/account pairs.

I may be missing a few. I also don't believe in gratuitously creating accounts simply to make use of some site (information has value, including and often particularly, identifying information). I'll make use of BugMeNot and/or create throwaway accounts using Mailinator for one-offs.

[DannoHung]

Pay for Lastpass. They're fucking awesome.

Wish they'd add a system for private/public key storage though.

[pault]

Salt the password with characters from the url. Maybe your password is P4ssw0rd, so your HN password is Py4csosw0rd. I've been using this scheme for years, works great!