People aren’t lazy, we just don’t give a shit about cybersecurity, it’s not as big of a deal as IT makes it.
I use an Excel worksheet for my passwords.
At my workplace, I need to use a dozen different webapps/VMs, some of them only like once every 2 months.
For some reason, each fucking app requires different password combinations with different rules, and their all have different password change times.
I ain’t remembering all that.
I used to keep a notepad with all my passwords in my desk drawer but I occasionally remote login on my machine nowadays, so I have a passwords.xls file on my desk. It’s even got some formulas that warns me when one is about to expire and needs to be changed, I put some effort into it.
At least password protect it. If your company allows it then install a password manager it is waaah easier and even enters the password for you and it is FREEE and open source
And I’m sure the person who steals that file will really appreciate the effort you put in.
I’ve literally searched networks for files with the word “password” in the title to find documents just… sitting on a network drive anyone could access.
At the very least, go get KeePass! It’s free, can run without installation, and can even type for you.
Keepass requires to type a master log in, and is therefore a password I don’t care to remember, and would add to my excel password sheet, defeating the purpose of keepass in the first place.
I don’t think you understand the amount of apathy the average worker has for their company.
I use keepass at home, and set it to use a password and a key file because I actually care.
I genuinely don’t care if someone hacks into my office account to do… Whatever. Worst that can happen to me is getting sent to some on the clock cybersecurity awareness program where I’ll be nodding off on my chair doing no work while an IT nerd rambles on about… Whatever it is they ramble about in these things, I never paid attention.
The publicly traded company I recently worked for did. You’d be surprised, people are lazy.
People aren’t lazy, we just don’t give a shit about cybersecurity, it’s not as big of a deal as IT makes it.
I use an Excel worksheet for my passwords.
At my workplace, I need to use a dozen different webapps/VMs, some of them only like once every 2 months.
For some reason, each fucking app requires different password combinations with different rules, and their all have different password change times.
I ain’t remembering all that.
I used to keep a notepad with all my passwords in my desk drawer but I occasionally remote login on my machine nowadays, so I have a passwords.xls file on my desk. It’s even got some formulas that warns me when one is about to expire and needs to be changed, I put some effort into it.
Do you password protect the sheet at least?
Of course not. The note pad in my drawer was not password protected either.
At least password protect it. If your company allows it then install a password manager it is waaah easier and even enters the password for you and it is FREEE and open source
They don’t allow custom software and I give 0 shits.
Cybersecurity isn’t the big deal y’all making it out to be.
And I’m sure the person who steals that file will really appreciate the effort you put in.
I’ve literally searched networks for files with the word “password” in the title to find documents just… sitting on a network drive anyone could access.
At the very least, go get KeePass! It’s free, can run without installation, and can even type for you.
I genuinely do not care.
Also, can’t install keepass or any software at all on the computer.
Ok but consider this:
Keepass requires to type a master log in, and is therefore a password I don’t care to remember, and would add to my excel password sheet, defeating the purpose of keepass in the first place.
I don’t think you understand the amount of apathy the average worker has for their company.
I use keepass at home, and set it to use a password and a key file because I actually care.
I genuinely don’t care if someone hacks into my office account to do… Whatever. Worst that can happen to me is getting sent to some on the clock cybersecurity awareness program where I’ll be nodding off on my chair doing no work while an IT nerd rambles on about… Whatever it is they ramble about in these things, I never paid attention.