Warning: my brother-in-law said my password strategy was 'a single point of failure'

We were talking about his new job in Phoenix, and he casually mentioned his company makes everyone use a password manager and a separate authenticator app. I've always just used a few strong, memorized passwords everywhere. He said if one of those gets compromised, I'm in trouble across multiple sites. Is it really that big of a deal to not use a manager?

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the_val3mo ago

Consider how often you actually change those memorized passwords.

faith_lopez481mo agoMost Upvoted

Absolutely, I had the same thing happen with a buddy in IT who basically told me my whole password setup was a ticking time bomb. I was doing the same thing using the same 5 passwords everywhere thinking I was being clever, until one of my accounts got breached and I spent a weekend locking everything down. Now I grudgingly use a manager and honestly it's way less hassle than trying to remember which variation of "Password1" I used on some random forum.

scott.mia3mo ago

But doesn't a password manager become its own single point of failure?