People aren’t lazy, we just don’t give a shit about cybersecurity, it’s not as big of a deal as IT makes it.
I use an Excel worksheet for my passwords.
At my workplace, I need to use a dozen different webapps/VMs, some of them only like once every 2 months.
For some reason, each fucking app requires different password combinations with different rules, and their all have different password change times.
I ain’t remembering all that.
I used to keep a notepad with all my passwords in my desk drawer but I occasionally remote login on my machine nowadays, so I have a passwords.xls file on my desk. It’s even got some formulas that warns me when one is about to expire and needs to be changed, I put some effort into it.
And I’m sure the person who steals that file will really appreciate the effort you put in.
I’ve literally searched networks for files with the word “password” in the title to find documents just… sitting on a network drive anyone could access.
At the very least, go get KeePass! It’s free, can run without installation, and can even type for you.
Keepass requires to type a master log in, and is therefore a password I don’t care to remember, and would add to my excel password sheet, defeating the purpose of keepass in the first place.
I don’t think you understand the amount of apathy the average worker has for their company.
I use keepass at home, and set it to use a password and a key file because I actually care.
I genuinely don’t care if someone hacks into my office account to do… Whatever. Worst that can happen to me is getting sent to some on the clock cybersecurity awareness program where I’ll be nodding off on my chair doing no work while an IT nerd rambles on about… Whatever it is they ramble about in these things, I never paid attention.
Dude just get keepassXC… it literally creates an encrypted vault for your passwords and it’s all stored entirely locally on your device.
The only potential inconvenience might be that it doesn’t integrate with browser/apps as far as I know, but you can copy/paste from it and it can even generate random strings for you to use when creating new passwords.
Literally just one password to remember, to open the vault, and all the rest can be stored securely. Two passwords if you use a different one for your desktop login, but that’s still manageable.
Yeah, some company I.T. policies ban password managers, which is extremely dumb… But also like, what’s there to do about it? Not my decision and we still gotta work.
I think I remember at some point putting my passwords inside an encrypted 7zip archive that itself had a password. No idea how secure that truly was, but it made me feel better.
They might allow the browser’s built in manager. Good chance if they’re a Microsoft shill, edge’s built in would be better than nothing…although it’s Microsoft so a text file might be better.
IT probably bans them because they can’t access the data. Keepass files are some kind of container, you can store any file with in it. Great when you want save a txt doc with 2fa recovery codes or something and also not a bad way to send a payload that’s impossible to scan. “I’m going on vacation, please use this keypass file for vendor XYZ, open the file within for the vendors contact info”.
People aren’t lazy, we just don’t give a shit about cybersecurity, it’s not as big of a deal as IT makes it.
I use an Excel worksheet for my passwords.
At my workplace, I need to use a dozen different webapps/VMs, some of them only like once every 2 months.
For some reason, each fucking app requires different password combinations with different rules, and their all have different password change times.
I ain’t remembering all that.
I used to keep a notepad with all my passwords in my desk drawer but I occasionally remote login on my machine nowadays, so I have a passwords.xls file on my desk. It’s even got some formulas that warns me when one is about to expire and needs to be changed, I put some effort into it.
And I’m sure the person who steals that file will really appreciate the effort you put in.
I’ve literally searched networks for files with the word “password” in the title to find documents just… sitting on a network drive anyone could access.
At the very least, go get KeePass! It’s free, can run without installation, and can even type for you.
I genuinely do not care.
Also, can’t install keepass or any software at all on the computer.
Ok but consider this:
Keepass requires to type a master log in, and is therefore a password I don’t care to remember, and would add to my excel password sheet, defeating the purpose of keepass in the first place.
I don’t think you understand the amount of apathy the average worker has for their company.
I use keepass at home, and set it to use a password and a key file because I actually care.
I genuinely don’t care if someone hacks into my office account to do… Whatever. Worst that can happen to me is getting sent to some on the clock cybersecurity awareness program where I’ll be nodding off on my chair doing no work while an IT nerd rambles on about… Whatever it is they ramble about in these things, I never paid attention.
savages?
real men use a plain text fill named notmypasswords to throw off hackers
My porn is called “homework”.
So my passwords file is called “porn”.
Take that atheists! (/s bc like what would that even…?)
Yeah and they make it a hidden file too for maximum security!
Dude just get keepassXC… it literally creates an encrypted vault for your passwords and it’s all stored entirely locally on your device.
The only potential inconvenience might be that it doesn’t integrate with browser/apps as far as I know, but you can copy/paste from it and it can even generate random strings for you to use when creating new passwords.
Literally just one password to remember, to open the vault, and all the rest can be stored securely. Two passwords if you use a different one for your desktop login, but that’s still manageable.
Not accepted on company hardware. Do not care to argue about it
Yeah, some company I.T. policies ban password managers, which is extremely dumb… But also like, what’s there to do about it? Not my decision and we still gotta work.
I think I remember at some point putting my passwords inside an encrypted 7zip archive that itself had a password. No idea how secure that truly was, but it made me feel better.
They might allow the browser’s built in manager. Good chance if they’re a Microsoft shill, edge’s built in would be better than nothing…although it’s Microsoft so a text file might be better.
IT probably bans them because they can’t access the data. Keepass files are some kind of container, you can store any file with in it. Great when you want save a txt doc with 2fa recovery codes or something and also not a bad way to send a payload that’s impossible to scan. “I’m going on vacation, please use this keypass file for vendor XYZ, open the file within for the vendors contact info”.
Looks inside. Also microsoft.
Well your company is stupid for not letting you use a better password manager than an excel spreadsheet