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		creshal on Sept 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The longer passwords in the Last.fm database > How many websites? Zero. Why would I bother memorizing them? > How many passwords are you going to memorize The LUKS password for my home laptop, the LUKS password for my work laptop, logon passwords words for each, and password manager master passwords for each. I guess I could move some of these to hardware keys, but I'm too lazy. > how are you going to not repeat a password? The same anyone is not repeating passwords: Strong password generators.

baldfat on Sept 8, 2016 [–]

> I memorize 3 passwords and they are extremely hard. The rest are not created by me and I don't have repeated passwords.

So why are you disagree with me?

creshal on Sept 8, 2016 | [–]

Because XKCD-style passwords are as secure as your "hard" passwords, but much easier to memorize.

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