Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.

• admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you never, ever need your passwords outside of your home, that’s great advice - it’s as secure as can be against digital theft. Less so against fire though, and backups are out of the question.

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  • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just store all my passwords in robots.txt on my web server, makes it easy for me to access them anywhere I go…

    /s

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  • nous@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can have backups of physical books. Just copy the text from one to the other. Yeah it is manual work but so is writing the first one in the first place. You can then store the second copy in a fire resistant safe or at a friends or family members house (maybe inside a safe as well).

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  • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Backups are easy? Just copy to another piece of paper and store somewhere else.

    I’m just being facetious though.

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    • admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not being facetious though. Off-site backups of a digital password collection are easy to setup and maintain. But when you change your password or add a new entry, it’s going to be a pain in the ass to have to drive over and update a physical copy.

      If you can live with those downsides, that’s fine. But in my opinion it would be facetious to pretend a physical backup is “just as good/usable” as a digital one.

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  • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a firesafe at home for important papers, passports and some emergency cash. I keep my passwords there.

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well you can write a copy and keep it in a shed if it’s unlikely to also catch fire.

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• maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Typically, the drawer just below the keyboard (in my experience)

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  • slumberlust@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If it’s my mother, post it notes stuck to the laptop…

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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the first suggestion here that’s actually within the technical abilities of most people, even most Lemmy users.

  The level of technical knowledge some of people here seem to think the general public has is absurd.

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m usually the one promoting technical literacy to all but in this case I honestly don’t use a password manager.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s honestly seemed like more trouble than it’s worth, there’s a few websites where I just reset my password every time.

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      • Hexarei@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The thing that makes it worth it to me is long, randomly generated passwords that I don’t have to know.

        None of the sites and services I use require me to type out a password thanks to browser integration and auto type (for desktop apps and such), along with autofill service on android.

        Then along with that I can even store other things like account recovery codes (for 2fa) or security questions (which also get randomly generated answers)… It’s a handy thing to have IMHO

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  • admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If getting a Dropbox account is too difficult for you, I seriously wonder why you’re subscribed here, or reading articles about password management in browsers.

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    • tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’re lost

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because I’m interested in tech news, especially since the world we live in can’t function without it.

      Besides, Lemmy seems to seriously overestimate the technical abilities of, well, most people.

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