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That’s great but for 95% of the population they’ll never do that. They’ll come up with a generic low security password that’s easy to both remember and type. And they’ll reuse essentially that same password on every site.

So, for your practices maybe a password manager is a step down. But for 95% of the popular it’s a step up.

Security is a spectrum, and password managers move most people to a more secure stance. You can yell at people that they can be more secure until you’re blue in the face, but most of them will shrug and ignore you.




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