I would trust it more than the biometric payment method they’re pushing in Whole Foods
Password manager by Amazon
Submitted 10 months ago by kokesh@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 10 months ago
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’d rather people use this than reuse the same password everywhere.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 10 months ago
Here’s the thing … as crazy as a notebook with passwords sounds, it’s not accessible to someone across the internet.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
but:
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way less convenient to generate dozens and dozens of complex passwords. which means it’s less likely to be used/updated as much as it should be.
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not tied into MFA which is an additional layer of security and convenience
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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Please hold your password notebook in front of the laptop camera.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just maybe don’t plaster “THESE ARE MY SECRETS” on the cover. Security through obscurity.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My mom had a nice little notebook for passwords. But when she passed, we couldn’t find it anywhere… We went through the whole apartment, everything.
Not having her passwords made a lot of things harder, closing her accounts, abusing her laptop, phone, etc. So while you shouldn’t advertise it, do tell a few people where to find it if they need to.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 months ago
INTERNET PASSWORD LOGBOOK is probably just a paper slip that you can remove, and then it’ll just be a blank leather journal.
Now a REALLY secure physical logbook would just have the cover of a boring, unremarkable-looking book on the outside.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 10 months ago
It depends on what the user fills it with.
Even the objectively safest solutions will be much shorter, and have less entropy, than what a pw-manager can deal with.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Their Ring camera that points directly at the desk they keep this notebook on: “it’s showtime”
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
It’s actually quite a secure way to store passwords, since it requires physical access.
I knew a guy who had a drawer full of slips of paper with passwords written on. He called it the “security drawer”. Made me smile, but probably shouldn’t have been advertising it.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Oh I know him. What a weirdo. Fun guy tho. Did he move what’s his new address anyway?
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Password managers check the URL before giving its data. A human being can be fooled into giving it to a fake web site.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Except they can be fooled too.
Bitwarden warns against using autofill on load for that very reason, as then simply loading a malicious page might cause it to provide passwords to such a site.
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
So… It’s a password book? Like, pen and paper?Not the best choice for storing passwords, but I’d be more willing to do that than trusting Amazon not to hold my passwords hostage with a digital service by them.
flemtone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Would you trust Amazon or any huge corporation with all your login and passwords ?
markz@suppo.fi 10 months ago
Surely they didn’t backdoor a notebook?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 months ago
I would trust them with my Amazon password.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Valid question. But this article is a physical book in your own hands. I am not saying this is safe or anything but has nothing to do with Amazon besides that they sell it.
Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
No
logicbomb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This isn’t even weird.
I think most security experts would recommend that you have your most important passwords written down somewhere, and then hopefully locked up in some safe or deposit box somewhere. You don’t need to buy an entire book for it, but some people like to spend money.
If this is for your less important passwords, then for the most part, writing them down is actually better. You won’t be as tempted to reuse your banking password for your social media. And some people like writing things down. A password manager is a better solution, but lots of people aren’t as good with technology and if they even let the browser remember it, they won’t know how to retrieve it later if they want to use a different computer, for example.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have a letter in my safe in the event of my death that contains all my passwords and accounts. I have also slipped in a dead man switch that she’s unaware of that will wipe out my “collection of science”.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Does anyone else know how to get into the safe?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
My password-manager is a script that gpg-decrypts to XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and then opens it in editor, encrypts back on changes. Is that bad?
infeeeee@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
How do you syncronize it between multiple devices and operating systems?