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If you're copy-pasting passwords as you mentioned you've already lost 'theoretical hole' game. Everything that has any sort of basic privileges on your machine
by xaduha 5y ago
If you're copy-pasting passwords as you mentioned you've already lost 'theoretical hole' game. Everything that has any sort of basic privileges on your machine can read a clipboard as soon as you put something there.
> But talking about that wasn't my goal.
Too bad, because passwords managers in browsers are the end of the line as passwords go. Vast majority of people wouldn't be copy pasting passwords, not because it's different kind of less secure, but because it's not convenient.
Passwords are inherently flawed or they wouldn't be what we call passwords. You're trying to solve something that is already solved with 2FA, passwords just need to be there as a bare minimum that should't be considered secure by itself no matter how complex any of them they are.
- KronisLV 5y agoThat is a fair point! Yet it's sad that we live in a world where our apps aren't sandboxed properly and where we have to worry about our own devices being compromised. However, 2FA really is one of the few solutions that could work here, unless the method used can also be compromised.