Next you will tell me they are using Excel as a database.

I used to work at a company that processed business-end taxes.

I’m going to make my American compatriots very uncomfortable - I've very possibly seen your full social and address info. We handled about a third of all business taxes. I don’t care to use any of it, cuz I also got wage info. Y’all broke. (Same)

because the company I worked for processed your taxes. And your HR people are garbage and don't know how to do their job.

I cannot tell you how many times I had to request my IT team to scrub files from our retention policy because your shitty HR sent it to me in cleartext to troubleshoot instead of through our encrypted box.

Excel is whatever you want it to be.

https://github.com/AyrA/ExcelStuff

Edit: Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20141028042934/reddit.com/r/excel/comments/2jtd2f/worked_on_a_completely_locked_down_machine_time/

What kind of fucking savage uses Excel as a password manager?

I work at a school. I have access to a label maker. I put "NewPasswd = hunter2" on the inside of my work laptop because Im immature. Caught 2 people trying to login with it. (worst part is only 1 was a student...)

I have an aexcel sheet like this. it is a decoy. has about 100 legit looking passwords, none of which are real.

Be like me and use notepad!

If it's not a password manager, why is it managing my passwords?

Everyone knows the best password manager is notepad!

"Excel is the second best tool for most jobs"

• From the passwords.doc file on the desktop

you don't really need to hack the excel sheet, most corporate passwords are the name of the company with a 3 replacing the e and an exclamation mark

Bitwarden exported my passwords to a spreadsheet file when i decided to mitigate away from it.

So for it has been my go-to with libreoffice until i find a better solution 😅

I'll just write my password (which is the same for all my accounts) on a post-it and stick it to the monitor then.

Just use a marker and write it on the wall. If the person trying to get access are in the room you are likely dead from some terrible mistake of science and this way at least you can add to the lore.

That's right, notepad is.

But is it a database?

You want me to store my passwords on servers owned by like Amazon?

I think the reason excel is always there like a cockroach is that it gives people programming capabilities without programming

Nope, that's silly, I use a PostIT note under my keyboard

/s

my boss a decade or so ago hept a printed spreadsheet 12x12 with small various passwords like b0b'sURuncle!

then any password for any system was a game of battleship. What's the cisco password? C-10, you break out the paper and go.

he had no idea that someone would quicly get into anything on that page if they had more than a couple minutes around it.

Is this gatekeeping?

If you're relying on Excels password, the cops can submit your xlsx file and a subpoena to MS and they will open it for them.

nah i just initiate password recovery everytime i need to log in.

It's a database that's critical to the business just on a harddrive. No parity, backup just on an smb share that they had to let everyone else know they weren't using anymore, so someone else could work.

Scary stories to tell by the server fire