For me for instance it is to type it in with a rhythm or only with my middle fingers.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in
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    4 minutes ago

    If it’s a password where I need to manually type like a PC login, I slowtype to make sure each character is pressed. I typically type fast so i might mistype at times.

    if the password is registered to my password manager, sync up all the clients. If the password still doesn’t work, there’s something very wrong. This actually happened once, and I thought my database was compromised at first. Thankfully it was just EA being awful with their account security. Couldn’t recover that account but I’m never touching any of their games if they can’t keep user accounts safe anyways.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    15·
    3 hours ago

    In the bad days before password managers there was a password I could only type… I knew the rhythm but had totally forgotten the actual password…

    • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
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      1 hour ago

      Couldn’t remember the passcode of my phone a few years ago and I had been using this passcode for quite a while. I guess I only really remembered it through muscle memory and that somehow went away.

      I didn’t recover the muscle memory for the whole day so I decided to reset my phone and restore from backup, setting a new passcode. The next day I tried to unlock my phone and out of habit typed in my old passcode (that obviously no longer unlocked my phone), had a big AHA moment and that was that.

      Relying on muscle memory is not a great idea, mine left me for a good 24 hours before suddenly coming back.

      I have a few passcodes/passphrases like this but nowadays I store them in a password manager as well, just in case my muscle memory lets me down again.