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Why are people talking like the choice is between cloud password managers (potentially insecure) and no password manager (impractical unless you reuse passwords
by ciphol 5y ago
Why are people talking like the choice is between cloud password managers (potentially insecure) and no password manager (impractical unless you reuse passwords)? There's a third option - a local password manager like the one built into your browser. Its one disadvantage versus the cloud is that you have to reenter your password on each of your devices. For normal people who have maybe 2 or 3 devices and don't change their passwords very often, this is a trivial obstacle.
- TillE 5y agoA local password manager becomes a "cloud" one trivially if you just stick the database file on a synced drive. You don't have to trust the drive's host at all since it's just an encrypted blob. KeePass makes this easy, at least in theory, though I was never happy with the phone app.
- 33Backpack33 5y agoFor the average person it's best they use a cloud password manager as they're not responsible enough to do their own backups of a local password manager.