To be fed up of passwords for everything in life?

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I am so sick of passwords/passcodes for everything in every day life. We are told we should have different, super strong passwords for every single thing.
Want to access your banking, mortgage, pension, insurance, supermarket loyalty scheme, hairdresser booking app, school app, kids club app? Then each of those should have their own unique random password. Something like P2d3&r#K@0 is often the suggested one. How are we supposed to remember each one?
I know my iPhone has a passkey thingy to remember them, but what if my phone gets lost or stolen? Apparently those are the first things they look to target, and if they get in to one of the accounts then they change the verification email addresses and it can lock you out of everything. Apparently it can take months to sort out. It’s so depressing.
This is triggered by recently being abroad and someone tried to hack my Revolut account. I had to block access and transfer my money to another account.
I believe you wouldn’t be covered by insurance if you wrote them down in a notebook and that was discovered by robbers and they could then access your stuff.
Does anyone else miss the simple days when you were not fighting off criminal masterminds daily?

My brother works in IT, his way around it is to use the same random letters and numbers you get from a string password and at the end he adds the account name so they are all unique. For example xxDB#26zzywReNetflix, xxDB#26zzywReNatwest, i don’t know how he remembers the first part.

It is not just passwords, though. I have noticed sites are increasingly asking you to tick a box to prove you are human, not a malbot AND even if you are registered, sites often insist on sending you a code to your mail box or an sms, rather than letting you log in with your password.
As for password length and component parts, words fail me, although I definitely avoid using any third party log in info automatically - looks at google & facebook - why should I support their data mining any more than I already, reluctantly, do?

I use a Password manager and the Authenticator app. I never have to remember anything and my phone is activated by my face/ipad by a fingerprint 🤷‍♀️

A 10 year old hacker would get that very quickly surely?

If you Google 'Can AI hack passwords?' you will probably be concerned about the results...
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I have seen a suggestion to use a long phrase such as a line from a song or poem e.g. 'OldMacDonaldhadaFarm' or 'TwasBrilligandtheSlithyToves' .

I will, of course contine with 'Password1!'

This!!!

Surely, we can decide how strong we want our passwords to be!

Completely agree. I used to have a few different passwords for different types of accounts (with banking and important ones being stronger). But when they constantly ask you to make a new password, it must contain this, that, and the other, yeah I’m completely lost on what passwords I have for what now. My phone remembers them all, then I’m screwed each time they want me to actually put the password in.

Because if your data gets leaked they can get sued for breach of GDPR, hence why they impose a rule to prevent that from happening.

The last straw for me was having to set up an account with passwords to order new recycling bags from the local council.
By the way, recycling bags are NOT recyclable. 🙄

I have universal password which changes a bit with every different website/app. Enough for me to remember but still be unique yet not. Iirc most break ins happen because pasaworda leak rather than someone spending time to crack it

These things happen by stealth, like AI. We are told we want it, it will make everything easier and safer etc etc. It arrives, all other options are cut (remember phone lines?) and then we discover it is actually worse than the old version and has implications for decades.

I recently signed up to BBC Good food. It demanded the following:
4 upper case
4 lower case
4 numbers
4 special characteristics.

You gotta love two factor authentication that goes to an old device or the account/ device of someone else who isn’t with you when you need it. Couldn’t pay something this week because we couldn’t find what device the authentication went to, rang them and they said they could no longer do it over the phone. Had to reset account and go back to getting set up by which stage we had a threatening letter from them ending on a nice note telling me it’s easy to do if I just go online for it!!!!!

Ps I remember when all I bitched about was sky back in the days we could afford it- you want to pay? Sorry it seems to be in your dps name, we can’t tell you how much you owe in case it’s easier for you to pay 😅😅😅

I agree - I also don't want to give my mobile number out for everything. I often put in a dummy email or mobile so I know if they have sold it on. You can put the shop name in instead of yours, so you know who has sold your data.

No. Legally, the onus is on the service provider to secure its customers data.
France has sustained a massive data breach and as a result, scam business is horrendous. Imagine your health, work, pension, school data all out there, for scammers to buy.

The issue is cyber crime, not the reinforced security.

But if banks didn't rely on everyone having mobiles and no real contact cyber crime couldn't exist. I am confident that banks are struggling with theft more than they ever did when we had no internet or mobiles and everything needed complicated passwords.

Op i agree! Modern life is soooo stressful

This is where I can tell people aren’t “techy”.
My DH set up a single password that unlocks our bitwarden account. We use it for everything. You cannot force it or break it open, so unless you KNOW the password, it will not let you into it. No data leaks as far as we are aware. It’s so easy!

Do you use biometrics to unlock your phone?

So, inspired by this thread, I went on my Google password manager. It told me there were over 200 compromised passwords. I spend twenty minutes deleting them all. Now it turns out that solved nothing... the passwords are still the same for the websites. I think i just deleted my own prompt. And now because I deleted them I don't even know which ones are compromised. I think this means that now any hacker can easily get access but I probably no longer can as I deleted the only thing that was helping me to remember them. Brilliant...

The answer for me is ‘LastPass’.

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It's not just passwords either! It's: put your password in, then verrify it with an email/text, then authenticate it on your authenticator app. My God! will it be four-step verification soon? Ok, after you have done all that, you can order your child's lunch from the canteen 🙄Takes me so long to do anything?!

I used to know My passwords but with the ever changing want & whims requested I now have so many that it doesn't automatically come to mind😤
I think i need to redo them all to only 2 options !

This is very easy to hack though. If the criminal gets thr Netflix password yhrough a data breach with Netflix at the end they could easily figure out that trying it with Natwest at the end might be the Natwest password.