Changed my mind about password managers after my cousin's Netflix got hacked

I always thought writing passwords in a notebook was safer than any app, but my cousin's account got taken over last month because she reused the same weak password everywhere. I finally tried Bitwarden's free version and it auto-fills everything, so now I have a different strong password for each site. Anyone else switch from paper to a manager and have tips for remembering the master password?

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jake6389d ago

Man, I was the same way with my notebook for years. What finally got me was writing down a password wrong and locking myself out of my own email. For the master password, pick a line from a song you know by heart, then swap some letters for numbers and symbols. Write that one down on actual paper and keep it somewhere safe until it's stuck in your head. The auto-fill is a game changer, you'll never go back.

jones.nancy9d ago

Forget the song idea from @jake638, use a passphrase made of a few random words. It's way easier to remember a silly sentence than a complex jumble of letters. Just make sure those words aren't something obvious from your life.

sageadams9d ago

Nancy's advice is good, but I'd be careful with "silly sentence." If the words are too connected, like "blue dog ate pizza," that's guessable. The randomness is key. Pick truly unconnected words, like "correct horse battery staple," which is a famous example. The sentence itself doesn't have to make logical sense, it just has to be memorable to you.