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Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Cabrio@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. Don't use a password there that you've used anywhere else.

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[-] thisbenzingring -1 points 11 months ago

suggest something like this

use your favorite password but add the site to it

so your lemmy password would be ilovemypasswordLEMMY

and your reddit password would be ilovemypasswordREDDIT

that way they can keep their shitty password but it won't be the same password on every site and they have an easy way to remember what the proper password is for the site they want to accesss

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's horrible if you ever become the victim of a targeted attack. Compromise your password once on some random shitty site and they've got access to everything.

It's also quite likely that incidents involving password dumps will have crackers filtering the dumped data looking for exactly passwords like this.

[-] thisbenzingring 3 points 11 months ago

This will create individual passwords which is better than the same password everywhere. If it's the least they will do, it's better than not.

[-] docwriter@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 11 months ago

I used to do this, but I realized that if someone got access to any of my passwords, they would easily spot the pattern.

In the end, using a password manager and generating large random passwords for each site was the best solution I found.

[-] thisbenzingring 2 points 11 months ago

Still better than using the same password. My argument is if you can only convince them to do at least that, it's better than every site using the same password