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I'm sure you guys have pretty high security standards, I just think the incentive to break you is too high (and I'd bet anything there are at least a dozen ways

I'm sure you guys have pretty high security standards, I just think the incentive to break you is too high (and I'd bet anything there are at least a dozen ways to break your security). The incentive to break my personal security perimeter is quite low. That being said, I do reuse my passwords. The strategy is having 5-6 different levels of pass, depending on the service. Level 1 is the highest security. I only use in very few services, usually financial-related. Level 5 or 6 are the lowest, I use loosely on services that I don't trust and don't hold too sensitive information. EDIT: another side of this strategy is also having levels of email addresses. So the address I use in level 5-6 services is not the same I use in Level 1, and certainly not my public email address. For lower levels of security, I use browser "remember pass" feature to offload my memory.

forty 5y ago
"remember pass" of the browser definitely counts as a password manager for me, so that's good too :) I agree that there are probably strong incentive to hack popular password managers, but I'm sure it's true of all popular software. And a soon as you manage to inject a backdoor in a software, even if it's a cat picture sharing software, you might be able to steal very sensitive passwords from the victim (via keylogger or other means). Having said that, if you want to steal passwords, are you going to attack the password manager where security might be taken seriously or target the cat picture software whose incentive to do good security are much lower? Personally I'd choose the cat picture one ^^ (if it's very popular) Also I just want to note that you might very well get hacked even if you are an uninteresting target. Most attacks are not targetted I think, they just send phishing emails to list leaked from miscellaneous website. And protecting against good phishing attacks is extremely hard, and I personally wouldn't ever dare saying "I would never fall for this" or blame victims for getting tricked.

forty 5y ago

"remember pass" of the browser definitely counts as a password manager for me, so that's good too :) I agree that there are probably strong incentive to hack popular password managers, but I'm sure it's true of all popular software. And a soon as you manage to inject a backdoor in a software, even if it's a cat picture sharing software, you might be able to steal very sensitive passwords from the victim (via keylogger or other means). Having said that, if you want to steal passwords, are you going to attack the password manager where security might be taken seriously or target the cat picture software whose incentive to do good security are much lower? Personally I'd choose the cat picture one ^^ (if it's very popular) Also I just want to note that you might very well get hacked even if you are an uninteresting target. Most attacks are not targetted I think, they just send phishing emails to list leaked from miscellaneous website. And protecting against good phishing attacks is extremely hard, and I personally wouldn't ever dare saying "I would never fall for this" or blame victims for getting tricked.