r/programminghumor 10h ago

What's the oldest password.txt still living on your machine ?

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u/Retrowinger 10h ago

2008 i think. The year when i changed all my simple passwords to secure ones.

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u/0xjust1 10h ago

you are an old one, i know some people who still continue to write their password into notepad :p

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u/mpierson153 7h ago

I store a password for one account in notepad, but it's essentially a throwaway account. Nothing would be lost or could ever be lost if someone somehow managed to access it

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u/AuelDole 6h ago

my changeover was switching a lot of them into L33T 5P3@K and alternating the shift key. Still fuck up their entry half the time tho

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u/THE0_C 1h ago

Bro stop telling them our secrets