The practical gadget journal 929

Passwords used to feel manageable. You had an email account, maybe a bank login, a couple of shopping sites, and if you were especially online, a forum or two. Plenty of people got by with one decent password, a notebook in a drawer, or a fuzzy memory that somehow held together. That era is gone. Now the average person has dozens, sometimes hundreds, of accounts tied to their identity, money, work, family photos, health records, streaming services, tax portals, school