I keep seeing people highly recommend them, but I’ve always thought it wasn’t very secure.

  • vipaal@aussie.zone
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    With the arrival of near infinite phonebooks, the drive and know-how to remember 100s of phone numbers is lost to humanity.

    Passwords present added complexity to those of phone numbers. On top of a name to number (allowing a few collisions) passwords are required to be of certain length, contain an upper case letter, lower case letter, number, special character, and more importantly, a preset lifetime.

    Password managers seem to be a safer and low stress bet for the vast majority. There will always a few exceptions who can do it all in their head. They don’t tend to advertise their presence.