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Instead of trusting every single provider of a service you use to safekeep your password, why not just use unique passwords for each service? I mean, really, you can't put the blame on each of the service providers if you choose to use the same password everywhere. That, if anything, is an embarrassing newbie mistake.

I have a repeatable method of coming up with a unique password for each service. I don't have to remember each unique password, only my method for producing a password.

Because my method is arbitrary rather than mathematic, I don't think anyone can figure it out even if given sample of passwords (I've challenged several who claim to be able to do so "easily"). And while my method is arbitrary, it's comprised of a few rules I know very well, which leads me to actually remember each unique password fairly well.

Don't outsource the job of safekeeping your password to every single vendor out there. Do it yourself.



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