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I used to think my dad was paranoid for writing his passwords on a piece of paper in his desk drawer.

After my cousin's entire Instagram got hijacked last month from a keylogger, I realized that physical paper in a locked drawer at home is way safer than reusing the same password on five different sketchy websites. Has anyone else had a similar wake-up call about an old-school security habit?
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the_holly
the_holly2d ago
Yeah, the "physical paper in a locked drawer" thing is smart. My friend's email got broken into from a data breach on some app, and now she keeps her main passwords written down at home too. It seems backwards but it actually works.
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the_hayden
That "seems backwards but works" idea is everywhere now, like @the_holly said, from notebooks to vinyl records.
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