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...)
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Why is your password just asterisks?
nah i just initiate password recovery everytime i need to log in.
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.
"Excel is the second best tool for most jobs"
- From the passwords.doc file on the desktop
If it's not a password manager, why is it managing my passwords?
But is it a database?
Excel is whatever you want it to be.
https://github.com/AyrA/ExcelStuff
Edit: Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20141028042934/reddit.com/r/excel/comments/2jtd2f/worked_on_a_completely_locked_down_machine_time/
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.
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?
Make sure to store it in a cloud-synced folder
No need to remind people of that. Microslop will manage to get it on their cloud one way or another. Just need a few more dark patterns. Maybe have an update silently change the 'Ctrl + S' shortcut to be 'save to OneDrive' instead of just 'save'.
Dammit, you just jinxed everyone
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've been quire happybwirh KeePass for many years. That's what I moved to after excel.
What’s wrong with Bitwarden? Oh yeah, I forgot, because it’s not Vaultwarden
What kind of fucking savage uses Excel as a password manager?
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!
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.
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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!
You have the best username I've ever seen on Lemmy.
The publicly traded company I recently worked for did. You'd be surprised, people are lazy.
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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.
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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.
Next you will tell me they are using Excel as a database.
It's a database that's critical to the business just on a harddrive. No parity, backup just on an smb share that they had to let everyone else know they weren't using anymore, so someone else could work.
Scary stories to tell by the server fire
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