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It depends entirely on your security and threat model. Me, working from home? I'll write down the password for my netflix account and wifi - sure.

In an office? Absolutely not, never, not once. Offices are not private and not secure and in any kind of even vaguely sensitive setting allowing a colleague to have access to your password and impersonate you is a massive risk.



Yeah, it really depends - in many cases an attacker gaining local access is game over anyway & less technical users will at least have harder to guess passwords. In other cases it's indeed a bad idea.




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