[Stanley]

Password Reuse in Disguise: An Often-Missed Risky Workaround

When security teams discuss credential-related risk, the focus typically falls on threats such as phishing, malware, or ransomware. These attack methods continue to evolve and rightly command attention. However, one of the most persistent and underestimated risks to organizational security remains far more ordinary.
Near-identical password reuse continues to slip past security controls, often

https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/passwo...issed.html

[Aeowulf]

When you make me change my password every 30 to 60 days, despite it being unique and not being on any lists... yeah, I'm going to start using sequencing.

Thankfully I don't work places that do that anymore. Though, one place I had like 164 character password. It was a message.

[Deany]

When you make me change my password every 30 to 60 days, despite it being unique and not being on any lists... yeah, I'm going to start using sequencing.

Thankfully I don't work places that do that anymore. Though, one place I had like 164 character password. It was a message.

Only real OG's don't remember their password like myself 😆

[Aeowulf]

Only real OG's don't remember their password like myself 😆

Have had to use so many I can never remember passwords now. 🤣

[Deany]

Have had to use so many I can never remember passwords now. 🤣

Yup that's the norm now, keep that stuff on notepad in external HDD -.-

[Aeowulf]

Yup that's the norm now, keep that stuff on notepad in external HDD -.-

Go old school and write it all on post-it notes stuck around the monitor. 🤣

[Deany]

Go old school and write it all on post-it notes stuck around the monitor. 🤣

Bro I cannot even read my own hand writing ain't capping

[shakur123]

Thankfully I don't work places that do that anymore. Though, one place I had like 164 character password. It was a message.

THIS! who in their right mind decide to implement this kind of policy

[The Pact]

Yup that's the norm now, keep that stuff on notepad in external HDD -.-

I keep a list of password clues and no one is going to be able to descipher the clues because a lot comes from message board names from the early 2000s from a more obscure forum than this one mixed with other crap and I only have clues on the notepad not the passwords.

[Aeowulf]

THIS! who in their right mind decide to implement this kind of policy

They were also terrified of privilege escalation so I had 11 different admin accounts that served different functions. Working on one issue, I would sometimes have to log out and back in to another account for different tasks. It was DUMB.