What's the best way to protect your username and passwords

Soldato
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we use Password Manager Pro (PMP) at work, while everyone raves about it I find it rather stupid. You spend time creating all these unique passwords and saving them in a single location but then it uses your windows account/login to access them. So, once you have access to someone's login details which are pretty easy to get you've then got access to everything.

two factor is the best way and strong passwords, it's just remembering/storing those passwords that isn't safe.
 
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different username + password + email address on every site. so when something leaks it doesn't weaken anything else.
ovbs that gets impossible to remember so you need to store them somewhere encrypted, and with a backup. how you go about that is up to you really, there are a lot of password managers available.
 
Soldato
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Bitwarden + Yubikey. Bitwarden is open source but if you want to use a Yubikey as 2FA with it you need to pay $10 a year which is very reasonable. Also works on Android, Linux, iOS and MacOS.
 
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