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Originally Posted by BlackEleven
I create unique passwords for every site by having a base password and then I modify it base on a simple algorithm derived from the URL. Password managers are useful, but if you don't have access to one for one reason or another this trick works pretty well.
For an example, take the base password passw0rd and the site gmail.com, and use an algorithm that replaces the first letter and last letter of the password with the first and last letter of the URL and you end up with gassw0rl. It's an easy way to have a unique password to a site that doesn't require a ton of memorization.
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I've thought about doing this, but if somebody were to get a hold of one of my passwords and figure it out, all my other passwords (as kermitology pointed out) might as well be the same. Of course that would require somebody to manually get my password and work with it ... I get the impression most password breakers are just bots.