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Discussion on: What do you use for password management?

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Nazim Boudeffa • Edited

Only one password anywhere : BigBrother1983

With a 3 because if someone hear me saying it

No seriously I have all of hem written in excell on my PC with the related account and correspondant site

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Jonathan Thorne

The files on your computer have a much higher chance of being looked at than your passwords being glanced at in a password manager.

In fact, I remember a while back for windows, Microsoft having access to any and every folder on a computer, Facebook as well.

Whereas a password stored in a password manager is encrypted, the managers peer reviewed by big name security firms, and the only way they can get your passwords is if they can guess the master password or want to spend the time brute forcing and decrypting.

Hell, with options like keepass and keepassxc, where you are the maintainer and host of the database, there's no reason for not having a password manager.