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		KeithMajhor on Dec 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fuck passwords How do you stop reusing passwords? Do you have some scheme for generating sentences of words based on the domain of the site?

gospelwut on Dec 5, 2011 [–]

You could implement your own dictionary (in ELvish!) if you wanted. But, I just make them up. You can re-use the prefix as it's only purpose is to screw up "whole word" algorithms.

KeithMajhor on Dec 5, 2011 | [–]

Right but if I have to make up a different one for every site then I'm still stuck using the super-secret text file.

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