In Japan, we use Excel for storing passwords.
Creating technical manuals.
Or make presentations that would do better in PowerPoint.
Database you say? Yes, also!
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.
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.
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.
What kind of fucking savage uses Excel as a password manager?
In Japan, we use Excel for storing passwords. Creating technical manuals. Or make presentations that would do better in PowerPoint. Database you say? Yes, also!
The publicly traded company I recently worked for did. You’d be surprised, people are lazy.
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.
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
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.
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…?)
It’s ok, it’s only on the hr lady’s computer and she always locks the door
You would be appalled to deal with c-suites
The kind of savage whose company is too cheap for a LastPass enterprise license?
I used to trust last pass but with all their security breaches in the past few years…
Mine just uses Keepass.
KeePass got banned where I work and so now we use Excel.
My wife.