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People are making things more complicated than they already are. I simply keep my passwords and passphrases inside my memory.
P.S. My password is not 'Password123456'
There's no way for the average person to keep up with remembering unique, strong passwords for all the sites that require them.
You either have to write it down, save it in a password manager, reuse passwords, or have simplified passwords or patterns.
Then one password breech and your password everywhere is exposed to the world. That's bad advice.
Yeah password re-use is the main method of cracking passwords. That obscure site that you think "oh I don't need a good password for this because it's a site I don't care about"? Guess what, they have shitty security practices, and now crackers have access to every site where you've used that same password.
Just use a simple formula to make the passphrase unique to each site. 🤷♂️