Unpopular opinion: password managers are not the safety net everyone claims

I was at a tech meetup in Portland last Saturday when a guy told me his password manager got breached and he lost access to 40 accounts overnight. He had been using the same master password for 3 years and didn't have 2FA turned on. How do you trust a single point of failure like that when your whole digital life depends on it?

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uma_webb2826d ago

Did you have to sign up for a new library card after that disaster? I once forgot my master password for a password manager and spent a whole weekend locked out of my streaming accounts. I ended up watching DVDs like it was 2005 again, which was actually kind of nice until I remembered I sold my DVD player at a garage sale. Now I just keep all my passwords in a notebook with a cover that says "definitely not my passwords" in sharpie.

jesse_craig2626d ago

And I read somewhere that like 80% of people actually write passwords down anyway, so your notebook is probably more SECURE than half the digital ones out there. Honestly, that "definitely not my passwords" cover might be the BEST security system ever.