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> Because I'm human and can't maintain 30+ passwords?

The original question was about GoToMyPC providing more details so someone could "estimate the risk".

If you're already reusing passwords, that becomes rather easy: Your risk is dominated by the fact that you reuse passwords across services. No amount of details from GoToMyPC is going to affect that very much--whether you even used their service or not.

Seriously, just start using a password manager. It's not that much effort, even just for the peace of mind that you're finally setting passwords with the desired strength that you already know is necessary, but couldn't afford to maintain / memorize.

The hardest part for me was trying to decide which one to use :) I settled on KeePassX, because it's free and open source, has an Android app, doesn't store your stuff on their servers (just one encrypted database-file you can safely keep synced between devices via whatever method/cloud storage you prefer). I've been keeping an eye on the pro's and cons between various password manager options, and as far as I've seen the biggest downside to KeepassX was that one security researcher didn't like the user interface (it's fine, IMO) whereas the others either keep your stuff on a server somewhere, are not open source, or both.



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