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Andrew42
Super Contributor
3 years ago

Re-Used Passwords

Watchtower tells me how many and which records share a password. However, it does not list which sites have which password. For the sake of convenience I use a few somewhat generic passwords for site...
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Andrew42
Super Contributor
3 years ago

@Tertius, 1P_Gem. Thank you for that advice. I have followed it and it raises further questions:

  1. I search using a password I know I have used. The result is 79 records. I check one of them and that password is nowhere to be found in the record. My immediate thought was the Watchtower is also searching in the password history, but that record has no password history or none that shows. So why is Watchtower listing it?
  2. I checked two other records and found they both use the identical password For one record Watchtower said the password was good for the other that is was weak?? They are the same password!!
  3. If you have two passwords one of which is an extension of the other: for example ABCDEFG & ABCDEFG123 and you search for first shorter one does Watchtower also list those with the second longer password? It looks to me like the latter but I'm not sure. Because when I repeat an identical search in Watchtower it sometimes comes up with a different number of records.

Thanks for your help.