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A long time ago I used "rings" of passwords, where the least secure sites shared one, medium secure sites shared another, and most secure sites shared a third.

This has some disadvantages, one because I was not always good at predicting which sites would end up security critical. (I probably signed up for 10 random web forums in 2009 and nothing at the time made news.ycombinator.com the obviously-important-to-me one.)

These days, though, password managers. Use them 100% of the time. Turn 2FA on everywhere; mandate it administratively (ideally in can't-be-ignored settings) for company systems.



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