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Another good way store passwords is to memorize a simple algorithm based on the topic of your password.

Example: - last 3 letters - a static symbol (let's use %) - @ if it's online / & if it's not - 3rd 1st 4th letter of topic in Capital-lower-Capital format - follow with a short string to increase length and stump bruteforces (lets use gold158)

So my password for hackernews would be: - ews - % - @ - ChK - gold158

ews%@ChKgold158

I'm no security expert, but that seems to be pretty secure and it will be different for each password. You won't ever be in trouble if you forget a password and it doesn't require you to carry around written passwords. If you scramble it a little better than I did in my example, it will look random and no one will try to "reverse engineer" your algorithm. (So when someone needs your password temporarily, you can tell them)



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