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Old 06-07-2012, 05:08 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by speedracer View Post
Time to man up and Lastpass/Keepass/etc. folks. This ain't the good old days. You need to have a different password for every single site to prevent hacks across your digital identity.

Someone out there has Last.fm, LinkedIn, and eHarmony and has the same 3 passwords out there in hash form. That ish won't take long to figure out and it'll make figuring out the salt a little easier too.
I keep an encrypted spreadsheet with all of my passwords and I rotate them every quarter. It's a bit of a pain to do, but I'm the worrier-type so I sleep a little better knowing my passwords are mostly useless in the wrong hands.

According to LinkedIn, my password wasn't compromised. If anyone here did get theirs taken, did LinkedIn send you a form email regarding this breach?

edit: I'm now looking into these password manager sites (Lastpass, Keepass, etc). Thanks for the mention, speedracer.
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