Ask HN: How old is your oldest password?
I just had to change a password for another service, and access broke because I had trouble with my password manager. I had to hit "Forgot your password?"
Then I just opened up my laptop, entering the LUKS password for the disk. These passwords can't be changed without re-encrypting the disk, a huge pain.
I'm sure a good password would be able to last a while.
How old is the oldest password you're still using on a semi-regular basis?
For your question, I remember my first password from when I was ~13 and use it in jokey places, though my longest running password was twenty years, and that’s exclusively for local devices.
On the general topic, I’m a touch typist and terrible at remembering things though I discovered I could learn to reflexively type passwords I did not intellectually “know”.
These days I keep a password tab in my ever on person pocket journal (my persons is security ground zero) of ~18 character highly random strings which I rotate continuously. I find it takes me a couple of weeks to be able to use these passwords without looking (or “knowing” what they are.)
I use one for personal system login, and one for my local only password manager (no lost pass.) All else uniquely keyed within!
> 15y. It should finish highschool soon.
Another password is >10y.
And then there are combinations and iterations of these two, that are also mature :)
Don't ask me, I won't tell you haha
Congrats, any plans for college following graduation :)
I've recently been through as many of my active accounts as I could find and revamped the passwords after having used a variation of the same one in most places since 2012.
Before that, the oldest one I still remember is from 2006, so that's going on 18 years.
~40 years.
No, it’s not a word in any language.
Yes it’s been in several leaks and is in most password lists.