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> Use a simple formula based on the company or service name.

The first leak with unhashed password will reveal your formula. Now you need to replace all passwords everywhere anyway.

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Sure, if they had many passwords from different services and then cracked the formula. It was deterministic based on company name but not immediately obvious. I had a separate “master” password for email and computer, because those were more important.

Worked for me for 20 years.

I don't think most of us are important enough for an attacker to look at our passwords side by side and find correlations.

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