The app that remembers your passwords so you can stop using the same one with a 1 on the end — around since Bruce Schneier's Password Safe in 1997, commercial from 2006, and mainstream only after every 'use a password manager' lecture had been given twice. The record notes that the standard objection ('what if they get hacked') was answered by LastPass in 2022, and that people still use them, because the alternative is your dog's name.
The record notes that the password to the password manager is the one password you must actually remember, and that it is, in a startling number of cases, the dog's name.
Filed as evidence: a job listing that asked candidates to demonstrate "Password Manager energy". Screenshot attached. The listing has since been edited.
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