Ask HN: Does anyone use an alternative to a password manager?
I am shocked to see a tech literate audience recommending a single algorithm based password. This is pretty basic stuff. Minimize attack surface!<p>With a password manager, your attack surface is your email, and the password to the manager. You can focus your efforts on securing those two things with 2fa, a hardware device, etc. Every other password can be extremely difficult, and only grant access to an individual service.<p>Compare it to an algorithm, where your attack surface is &quot;every service.&quot; If one password is compromised, they all are. Then you have to change them all manually, and remember what&#x27;s been changed, when.<p>In an age of great open source options like bitwarden, Keepass, and unix pass, there&#x27;s no excuse for using an algorithm anymore.