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!
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!
What kind of fucking savage uses Excel as a password manager?
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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.
The publicly traded company I recently worked for did. You’d be surprised, people are lazy.
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!
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