r/Passwords↗
Passwords & Authentication
r/Passwords is a community to discuss password security, authentication, password management, etc. Application of password security and research are on-topic here. We do not hack accounts, we are not professional support for Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., and we will not recover lost or hashed passwords.
21k subscribers44 posts / mo in Sep 202637 authors / mosince 2010
r/Passwords has 21k members (+49% over the last 12 months). It gets about 44 posts a month from 37 people. Top topics: Password Managers, Password Management and Password Management.
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Topics and brands on r/Passwords
Top topics
Share of the subreddit's posts
- Password Managers14%
- Password Management5.0%
- Password Management2.7%
- Apple Passwords2.6%
- Data Breaches1.9%
Brands people mention
Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- Bitwarden
- Apple
- xkcd
- Have I Been Pwned
- 1Password
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