Should I use a password manager?
Yes, and this is not a close call. The most common way accounts get taken over is not sophisticated hacking; it is credential stuffing, where a password leaked from one breached site gets tried on your email, bank, and everything else. Reuse is the vulnerability, and no human can memorize a unique strong password for two hundred accounts. A password manager can.
The trust question people worry about, what if the manager gets breached, has a real answer: reputable managers encrypt your vault so that even the company cannot read it, and your master password never leaves your device. NIST, CISA, and essentially every security organization recommend them, including the built-in ones from Apple and Google, which are perfectly good starting points.
Two rules once you start: make the master password a long passphrase you have never used anywhere, and turn on two-factor authentication for the manager itself and your email.
Yes. Reused passwords are how accounts actually get hacked, and a manager makes every login unique without your memory involved. Security agencies from NIST to CISA recommend them.
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