It’s a clearly inevitable truth that we have loads of passwords. It likely started with a secret code number for our bank, but since that point, the growth of the internet has meant that every day brings a new network, and requires a new password.
Only this month I presume I’ve enrolled in around 12 new websites and networks. Have I chosen a different password for every one? No way. It’s improbable to do something like that, in part because there’s not a way I would ever remember them, but also since ‘like all of us’ I don’t have a method to monitor varied passwords.
I maybe could write them down in a book somewhere, but what if I set it aside or couldn’t get to it, or -and this is far more typical- wasn’t at my computer and had to get a specific account password? It’s like leaving all the house keys at your desk and never heading out anywhere with them: safe, yeah, but you’ll lose your mind from the lack of convenience.
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