What kind of fucking savage uses Excel as a password manager?
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!
So is the excel workbook file encrypted?
And is the encryption as strong as a password manager encryption?
The kind of savage whose company is too cheap for a LastPass enterprise license?
Mine just uses Keepass.
You would be appalled to deal with c-suites
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.
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!
My wife.
It’s ok, it’s only on the hr lady’s computer and she always locks the door
“No one wants to hack little ol’ me!” - HR lady
Next you will tell me they are using Excel as a database.
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…)
Why is your password just asterisks?
I wonder if you can configure your laptop to take a picture if the password entered is “hunter2”…
Definitely possible on Linux. Not so much on windows
https://askubuntu.com/questions/253189/can-i-make-the-webcam-take-a-picture-when-an-incorrect-password-is-entered And for windows you need a dedicated program…
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.
If it’s not a password manager, why is it managing my passwords?
Because you believe in circular reasoning and you are begging the question
You wouldnt believe what my favourite book is
I have an aexcel sheet like this. it is a decoy. has about 100 legit looking passwords, none of which are real.
“Excel is the second best tool for most jobs”
- From the passwords.doc file on the desktop
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?
you don’t really need to hack the excel sheet, most corporate passwords are the name of the company with a 3 replacing the e and an exclamation mark
But is it a database?
That’s right, notepad is.
You want me to store my passwords on servers owned by like Amazon?
I think the reason excel is always there like a cockroach is that it gives people programming capabilities without programming
Just use a marker and write it on the wall. If the person trying to get access are in the room you are likely dead from some terrible mistake of science and this way at least you can add to the lore.
nah i just initiate password recovery everytime i need to log in.
Well with services forcing MFA texts as primary option, it pretty much is this.
