Nope, that’s silly, I use a PostIT note under my keyboard
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I think the reason excel is always there like a cockroach is that it gives people programming capabilities without programming
That’s right, notepad is.
I have an aexcel sheet like this. it is a decoy. has about 100 legit looking passwords, none of which are real.
I work at a school. I have access to a label maker. I put “NewPasswd = hunter2” on the inside of my work laptop because Im immature. Caught 2 people trying to login with it. (worst part is only 1 was a student…)
I wonder if you can configure your laptop to take a picture if the password entered is “hunter2”…
Definitely possible on Linux. Not so much on windows
I remember having something like that on windows, but maybe it was the adware from the manufacturer, I don’t remember
“Excel is the second best tool for most jobs”
- From the passwords.doc file on the desktop
But is it a database?
I’ll just write my password (which is the same for all my accounts) on a post-it and stick it to the monitor then.
You mean you don’t write it on a piece of paper then place it in a room that is barricaded from the inside, but still accessible by a securius route through the building filled with environmental puzzles and enemies? The barricade should also be convenient to move from inside the room for fast return to your computer.
Are you my mom? Are you going to call me when that post-it note disappears and ask me if, for some reason, I know what your password is?
What kind of fucking savage uses Excel as a password manager?
Customer
Classic customer
I knew a guy that stored business login credentials in a Google sheet. Black text on black background was what made it “secure.” Because you have to know that they’re credentials and click on the field.
Worked in the UK for one of the largest Japanese multinationals. Our team required several government accounts with different passwords. I asked IT what are my options and they said we have none, and that their team used a text file on a shared drive so I did it on Excel instead to make to make it more searchable. If they’re not willing to let you install keepass or buy any software, what can you do!
The publicly traded company I recently worked for did. You’d be surprised, people are lazy.
In Japan, we use Excel for storing passwords. Creating technical manuals. Or make presentations that would do better in PowerPoint. Database you say? Yes, also!
Yeah a text file is more than enough
Personally I store mine in LLM training data. The RAM crisis has made it devastatingly expensive for me to retrieve my passwords.
It’s wild we haven’t figured out how to protect data except by storing passwords in a users brain.
Not sure a user’s brain is secure either. A lot of hacks are through phishing schemes.
The kind of savage whose company is too cheap for a LastPass enterprise license?
I used to trust last pass but with all their security breaches in the past few years…
Mine just uses Keepass.
KeePass got banned where I work and so now we use Excel.
Your company is stupid for that.
My wife.
You would be appalled to deal with c-suites
It’s ok, it’s only on the hr lady’s computer and she always locks the door
“No one wants to hack little ol’ me!” - HR lady
nah i just initiate password recovery everytime i need to log in.
Well with services forcing MFA texts as primary option, it pretty much is this.
If you’re relying on Excels password, the cops can submit your xlsx file and a subpoena to MS and they will open it for them.
Next you will tell me they are using Excel as a database.
Be like me and use notepad!
Notepad++ inside an encrypted container.
The password to the encrypted container? Believe it or not, in Notepad.
Bitwarden exported my passwords to a spreadsheet file when i decided to mitigate away from it.
So for it has been my go-to with libreoffice until i find a better solution 😅
KeePassXC awaits!
I used to work at a company that processed business-end taxes.
I’m going to make my American compatriots very uncomfortable - I’ve very possibly seen your full social and address info. We handled about a third of all business taxes. I don’t care to use any of it, cuz I also got wage info. Y’all broke. (Same)
because the company I worked for processed your taxes. And your HR people are garbage and don’t know how to do their job.
I cannot tell you how many times I had to request my IT team to scrub files from our retention policy because your shitty HR sent it to me in cleartext to troubleshoot instead of through our encrypted box.
Well my company HR was so dumb I used to be able to look up everyone’s personal information and income because they tried using Salesforce to store employee data but didn’t know how permissions worked.
As one of the lower paid employees according to that info. It was not my problem. I don’t work in IT and didn’t get hired for my technical experience, so I offer none.
