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GeneralRe: We beg, implore and beseech thee. Stop reusing the same damn password everywhere PinPopular
Super Lloyd5-May-20 14:30
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GeneralRe: We beg, implore and beseech thee. Stop reusing the same damn password everywhere Pin
Kent Sharkey5-May-20 15:25
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GeneralRe: We beg, implore and beseech thee. Stop reusing the same damn password everywhere Pin
Bernhard Hiller5-May-20 21:12
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GeneralRe: We beg, implore and beseech thee. Stop reusing the same damn password everywhere Pin
kalberts6-May-20 2:35
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GeneralRe: We beg, implore and beseech thee. Stop reusing the same damn password everywhere Pin
MadMyche6-May-20 8:35
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GeneralRe: We beg, implore and beseech thee. Stop reusing the same damn password everywhere Pin
ZurdoDev6-May-20 1:21
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GeneralRe: We beg, implore and beseech thee. Stop reusing the same damn password everywhere Pin
kalberts6-May-20 2:27
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GeneralRe: We beg, implore and beseech thee. Stop reusing the same damn password everywhere Pin
Richard Deeming6-May-20 2:44
mveRichard Deeming6-May-20 2:44 
It's down to your threat model.

You seem to be worried about someone hacking your local PC and getting access to your password manager's database. But if that happens, you've got bigger problems to worry about. And any decent password manager will have encrypted the database using your master password, which shouldn't be stored anywhere on your computer.

Similarly with password managers which store or back-up the database to an online site: any decent tool will have encrypted the database, and the encryption key won't be stored on the server. If the server is breached, there wouldn't be any trivial way to retrieve your passwords.

Whereas if you reuse the same password across multiple sites, you're relying on the developers behind all of those sites to protect your data properly. You just need to spend five minutes in QA to see how unlikely that is! If even one site stores your password insecurely and suffers a data breach, your accounts on all of the other sites you've used the same password for are at risk.

Troy Hunt: The only secure password is the one you can’t remember[^]
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GeneralRe: We beg, implore and beseech thee. Stop reusing the same damn password everywhere Pin
ZurdoDev6-May-20 2:55
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GeneralRe: We beg, implore and beseech thee. Stop reusing the same damn password everywhere Pin
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