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How do you manage your passwords?

Survey period: 20 Mar 2022 to 27 Mar 2022

Option	Votes	%
Biometrics instead of passwords where possible	131	18.30
Hardware keys instead of passwords where possible	17	2.37
One time passwords sent each time or magic links	33	4.61
Single Sign on where possible to minimise passwords	125	17.46
A password manager (eg Keychain, LastPass etc)	345	48.18
A manually managed organised list of passwords (eg spreadsheet)	189	26.40
Random sticky notes and scraps of paper strewn about	40	5.59
I just use the same password everywhere	77	10.75
Request a password reset link each time I need to sign on	43	6.01
Something even cleverer	85	11.87
Responses	716
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

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Something even cleverer Daniel Pfeffer20-Mar-22 23:13 Daniel Pfeffer 20-Mar-22 23:13  I use a generating function to generate my passwords (replaced every so often). All I need to reconstruct a password is the generating function, the initial seed value, and the number of iterations. All I need to remember are the first two - even if a list of iteration numbers were to fall into the wrong hands, what could they do with it? Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W. would love to say more clever but it is annoying as .......... Simon_Whale20-Mar-22 23:03 Simon_Whale 20-Mar-22 23:03  At work we use mac books, when powering up we log into the machine log into JamF security google authenticate and then we are in the machine and allowed to work Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON re: Something even cleverer Jonas Hammarberg20-Mar-22 21:02 Jonas Hammarberg 20-Mar-22 21:02  is a term I fool myself with

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