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To: Pearls Before Swine

Someday a password manager company is going to be hacked. They have to be the juiciest targets around.


8 posted on 01/22/2020 2:44:01 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Someday a password manager company is going to be hacked. They have to be the juiciest targets around.

I forgot the "/S". My bad.

9 posted on 01/22/2020 2:46:47 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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I won’t use those for fear that it will get hacked someday. Just a matter of time.


19 posted on 01/22/2020 5:50:08 PM PST by Engedi (ui)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Someday a password manager company is going to be hacked. They have to be the juiciest targets around.

I would never use an online password manager. That's just asking for it IMO. There are a number of good desktop programs folks can use. Password Safe was originally written by Bruce Schneier, a rather well-known cryptographer. He's since handed it off to others, but the program is still open source so anyone can see how it works, and it can therefore be validated not to have nasty surprises buried in it.

Personally, I use Keepass2, but it's a Linux program. Also open source and can read a Password Safe database. As long as you have a nicely complex and reasonably long passphrase for your password manager, you should be OK.

23 posted on 01/22/2020 8:28:32 PM PST by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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