The result of encouraging frequent changes: 5pEAzhawh$, 5pEAzhawh$2, 5pEAzhawh$3, 5pEAzhawh$4, 5pEAzhawh$5, ...
> Even better, use a password manager like Lastpass.
They really should have lead with this.
The result of encouraging frequent changes: 5pEAzhawh$, 5pEAzhawh$2, 5pEAzhawh$3, 5pEAzhawh$4, 5pEAzhawh$5, ...
> Even better, use a password manager like Lastpass.
They really should have lead with this.
Password managers have become a nearly non-negotiable necessity. Telling people just use a password manager is becoming kind of like telling developers just use source control 15 years ago. You just won't know how important they are (or the true cost/benefit) until you start using one yourself.
Source control was very, very standard 15 years ago. 15 years ago I would have run, not walked, from a job if they didn't use source control.
There was no git, we used CVS, which was almost old enough to vote at that time.
For commercial shops, perhaps. But back then the bar for using source control was much, much higher, so for many small projects, people didn't bother. There wasn't anything as simple as `git init`.
There were a few public CVS and SVN servers that were appropriate for open source projects, but for anything personal or commercial, you had to use a local, single-user repo or set up your own server. (Back then, the only viable DVCS systems were commercial.)
That was like 5 minutes of work, though. Maybe an hour or two if you hadn't done it before. It's absurdly easy to set up and use SVN. CVS was easy to set up, but a nightmare to use.
> you had to use a local, single-user repo or set up your own server.
That's the opposite of having no source control, that's having source control.
I’m not arguing with that, only pointing out that it wasn’t ubiquitous.
The privacy policy for the firefox extension is also fairly clean.
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