Not necessarily unique ones - most of mine are variations of the same 3-4 usernames and passwords. But I happen to have a master list of all of them (except I don’t actually spell out the passwords, I put clever hints/codes to remind me of the password such that nobody else could guess them even if they got hold of the list).
I felt bored so I counted them and found that I have 69 different logins for various websites/mail accounts. There are a few that I haven’t put down on the list but use regularly so it’s probably closer to 75 logins that I use or might use again. I’m not counting any throwaway logins that I just registered for once with no intention of returning, in which case I wouldn’t have recorded it.
In this day and age with every website and its mother wanting you to sign up to do any god damn thing at all (like viewing the site) that figure actually seems pretty modest. I am sure there are some of you out there with hundreds, if not thousands of logins. So whatcha got?
I have three or four logins and about sixty or so passwords. All the passwords are unique. (I have an algorithm that lets me figure out what the password is, based on the name of the service and some relatively simple maths.)
My work logins are all the same - firstinitiallastname. I had no choice in that. The associated passwords have a common format with specific variations depending upon the network, and I think there are 4 of them…
For personal use, I have fewer than a dozen, some of which I almost never use. I have one log-in/password combination that I use for the countless stupid accounts one must sign up for. Who cares if someone figures it out - are they going to pretend to be me on the Baltimore Sun site? pffffffft And I have maybe half a dozen email accounts with different providers using variations on 2 or 3 usernames and passwords.
Apart from banking on line, I do very little that could cause actual harm to me if someone got my name/password. I see no reason to have a separate identity for every site I visit.
Three. One username for the University systems that the University gave me (and misspelled, resulting in confusion almost every time I use it), One for official things online (firstname.lastname), and one for everything else online, unique enough that I can use it for everything else. (guess what it is).
Oh, and a slightly different variation of the official one for my small hometown bank, which inexplicably requires usernames to meet the same standards as passwords. (at least one capital letter, one numeral, and one symbol.)
Passwords, I have many, mostly variations on the same theme. Important sites are unique, nonimportant sites, not so much.
I have 2 different emails that end up getting used for logins, and 3 names.
My passwords other than ones that are generated for me [which i detest but i have 3 or 4 sites that autogenerate passwords and email them out] get changed about once a month. I have a pattern for creating passwords, so if i have to come up with what the PW was several cycles previously, I can come up with what it was fairly easily.
Countless logins. Have various different passwords for different things; if it’s really imporant the password will be unique. Also have a couple of dongles for online banking and poker and a thing that looks at your fingerprint and gets it wrong.
I will also create a unique password if it’s important that I can tell people who I wouldn’t want having passwords for other things.
Latest example of this: I have created a user account on this laptop to use a specific program with. The password for that, I don’t mind letting you all know, is “SausageMonkey”
Including my work-related logins (which I had no control over creating), I have about 10 different logins, although most of them center around 2 main themes.
Passwords? Probably 5 main passwords, but maybe a dozen or so permutations of those passwords exist.
