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I wasn't sure about password managers for a long time, until I read this article by Troy Hunt "Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter": https://www.troyh
by jfax 5y ago
I wasn't sure about password managers for a long time, until I read this article by Troy Hunt "Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter": https://www.troyhunt.com/humans-are-bad-at-urls-and-fonts-dont-matter/ https://www.troyhunt.com/humans-are-bad-at-urls-and-fonts-do... - if you give this a skim read you may think this has nothing to do with password managers, but read it to the end.
I won't spoil it, but I will say that everything suddenly clicked in. Password managers solve so many problems at once, including problems we don't intuitively understand. Contrary to other comments here, password managers aren't " a trade off between security and convenience", security is a process and not a tool, and password managers regiment a very important process of password security for regular people.
- EricE 5y agoExactly - it's not just convenience. Without a password manager how the hell can you actually keep unique passwords that are completely unrelated on all your sites? You can't. For me password manager is all about practicality.
- vimy 5y agoI only need unique passwords on a couple sites, things like gmail and icloud, and that’s easy to remember. Don’t care about random websites, they can steal my password. It doesn’t matter, I’ll just make a new account.