Password Reuse Risks
This cluster discusses the common practice of reusing passwords across services, its associated security risks like credential stuffing, and solutions such as password managers or unique passwords per site.
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Unless the user uses the same password for other things, which is extremely common.
People like him are why we can't reuse passwords
Even better, you can be certain a great number of users reuse their password
Seems like this would result in many users using the same password for particular services.
With password managers passwords are not reused which avoids this problem already.
Passwords are frequently reused.
Well, that assumes people aren't reusing those passwords.
Good thing no one on HN would ever reuse a password, right?
If you're sharing lots of passwords you are really messing things up. Rethink your approach.
People reuse passwords. The mere possibility of someone being able to see it is bad.