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Password managers are just another tradeoff of insecure vs inconvenient. All credentials under one master password? Single point of failure. You could use mo
by clarry 10y ago
Password managers are just another tradeoff of insecure vs inconvenient.
All credentials under one master password? Single point of failure. You could use more passwords, but we are heading back to square one then.
Next you have to decide where to make your passwords accessible for yourself. Do you also want them on the phone? Because if you don't, it can get kinda inconvenient. On the other hand, I'm quite positive my phone has more exploitable security issues than my laptop. Same for all other devices you might use. What about devices that are shared by other people? You lock yourself out of the things for which you've opted to use the password manager, or you expose it to the security issues on the said devices.
I'd rather just have less stupid passwords to begin with. Why do most stores require an account for me to place an order? Not for my security. Forums, boards, other places.. anonymous posting without accounts works just fine, and there are ways to create a persistent identity for those who want it, without requiring it from everybody. Yet most "social" sites require accounts. Mostly not for my security.
- startling 10y agoPassword managers don't have a single point of failure: an attacker needs both your password and the state of the password manager.
- EvilTerran 10y agoI'd rather just have less stupid passwords to begin with. Why do most stores require an account for me to place an order? Not for my security. [...] most "social" sites require accounts. Mostly not for my security. True, that. It seems many sites insist on user accounts more for their benefit than yours - they want your email address so they can nag you towards their "funnels" for further profit opportunities, along with whatever personal and/or demographic information they can scrounge for their analytics, etc. They require you to make an account, not for your security, but merely as a premise to part you with your juicy monetisable data.
- user_bin_nice 10y agoCreate different personas for each site. This includes different usernames/emails. A password manager helps to manage this type of compartmentalization.
- user_bin_nice 10y agoYour post is very ridiculous. There are many good password managers such as keepass, 1password, and lastpass. The later two makes syncing between your devices very convenient; However, there are alternate ways of syncing keepass databases. Secondly, todays mobile operating systems are far more secure than desktop computers. IOS and Android 6+ have solid security features such as application sandboxing that's standard.