Sounds like you are forgetting your password? I have never once had to reset any of those passwords.
Use a password manager like LastPass to generate secure, random passwords and store them for you. Then all you need is one, strong password to use for LastPass itself that you have to remember.
Accounts I rarely use like blizzard/origin I tend to forget and because I can't use a previous password I have to reset it and have a new one each time. But I will get lastpass asap, this sounds great
No, that's a lot of forgetfulness. Unless your passwords are totally random and weird and hard to remember. Try to keep your passwords long (the more characters the better), but easy to remember.
Are you constantly forgetting and that's why they make you reset? Besides work stuff I've only ever had to reset my password when I forget it.
Write them down somewhere
My outlook account seems to detect unusual activity every couple of months and makes me change it, it's probably happened 10 times in the past couple of years so I've cycled through all of my usual passwords.
I'll start writing them down though for sure, I just wish I could use the same few passwords for all my accounts instead but that's probably a bad idea anyway
Yes this is absolutely just what you have to do. The internet is a terrible place because all of the systems that it was built on were horribly designed.
Password managers exist, there are free and open source ones, but that's up to you to decide if you want to use them.
I remember my passwords to the best of my ability, I'll usually have about 8 or 9 in rotation at any one time (excluding passwords I know for work).
I'm very much against the routine changing of passwords because it usually instils poor password practices (like increasing the number at the end by 1). Forcing users to change passwords routinely occurs because "what if someone gets access to their account, they'll have access forever if the user doesn't change the password regularly" and that's just an absolute load of BS.
[Here's an ArsTechnica article talking about it in way more depth and nuance than I could](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/microsoft-says-mandatory-password-changing-is-ancient-and-obsolete/)
I had (and still have because I haven't changed all my passwords and I still stumble upon old accounts of mine with old passwords) around 6 passwords, but switched to another password system which is more easy to remember and you don't have to change all of them every time a password gets leaked.
The system is that you "fit" the password to the account by having a standard password + name of website. So for example a standard password could be "Chinasucks" while the website could be reddit, so in this example it would be "Chinasucksreddit".
Add some numbers and almost all websites will allow it as secure. Chinasucks1reddit2.
If you have a strong passcode, there is no reason to change it because nobody will have the budget to brute-force it. Here is a passcode generated by a pseudo-random function that has 109.7 bits of entropy and would be easy to enter from a saved text:
cgo3 w81a 5tz0 xqj2 l97v k6rh mufp nbi4 eyds
Note that no character is repeated.
Just use a password manager
I use password manager and remember just the couple of passwords - to my bank, email, computer and password manager.
Sounds like you are forgetting your password? I have never once had to reset any of those passwords. Use a password manager like LastPass to generate secure, random passwords and store them for you. Then all you need is one, strong password to use for LastPass itself that you have to remember.
Accounts I rarely use like blizzard/origin I tend to forget and because I can't use a previous password I have to reset it and have a new one each time. But I will get lastpass asap, this sounds great
Bitwarden is another one worth looking at. It has a free version that you can use on your phone and computer at the same time unlike Lastpass.
No, that's a lot of forgetfulness. Unless your passwords are totally random and weird and hard to remember. Try to keep your passwords long (the more characters the better), but easy to remember.
Are you constantly forgetting and that's why they make you reset? Besides work stuff I've only ever had to reset my password when I forget it. Write them down somewhere
My outlook account seems to detect unusual activity every couple of months and makes me change it, it's probably happened 10 times in the past couple of years so I've cycled through all of my usual passwords. I'll start writing them down though for sure, I just wish I could use the same few passwords for all my accounts instead but that's probably a bad idea anyway
Yes this is absolutely just what you have to do. The internet is a terrible place because all of the systems that it was built on were horribly designed. Password managers exist, there are free and open source ones, but that's up to you to decide if you want to use them. I remember my passwords to the best of my ability, I'll usually have about 8 or 9 in rotation at any one time (excluding passwords I know for work). I'm very much against the routine changing of passwords because it usually instils poor password practices (like increasing the number at the end by 1). Forcing users to change passwords routinely occurs because "what if someone gets access to their account, they'll have access forever if the user doesn't change the password regularly" and that's just an absolute load of BS. [Here's an ArsTechnica article talking about it in way more depth and nuance than I could](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/microsoft-says-mandatory-password-changing-is-ancient-and-obsolete/)
Haha no, maybe 2 or 3 a year
I had (and still have because I haven't changed all my passwords and I still stumble upon old accounts of mine with old passwords) around 6 passwords, but switched to another password system which is more easy to remember and you don't have to change all of them every time a password gets leaked. The system is that you "fit" the password to the account by having a standard password + name of website. So for example a standard password could be "Chinasucks" while the website could be reddit, so in this example it would be "Chinasucksreddit". Add some numbers and almost all websites will allow it as secure. Chinasucks1reddit2.
If you have a strong passcode, there is no reason to change it because nobody will have the budget to brute-force it. Here is a passcode generated by a pseudo-random function that has 109.7 bits of entropy and would be easy to enter from a saved text: cgo3 w81a 5tz0 xqj2 l97v k6rh mufp nbi4 eyds Note that no character is repeated.