In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious…

  • CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org
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    1 year ago

    The irony is that almost all digital theft right now is on the server side and that password book could categorically be much safer than an online service.

    I’ve been in IT for 20 years and I still don’t see the advantage of a password manager if you use passphrases with DFA.

    I never need to log into a secondary service to get access to the first. All passphrases are unique to each site and they come from my brain not from a copy-paste.

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      1 year ago

      Id like to see you manage the 5000 different passwords I have in my manager with your brain

      • CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org
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        1 year ago

        It’s easy peasy. I don’t have to remember a single password – just the system that I use to make passwords. The only time the system breaks down is my work accounts because we do SSO about as well as you’d expect.