Password manager by Amazon
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I've not found anything better. Storing on my computer, or worse someone else's computer, doesn't seem safe.
The trick is to use code language, and don't forget the code. Then you can use digital sources more freely, I feel.
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Ah yes, the keep ass
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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".
Does anyone else know how to get into the safe?
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Best option for non techies at home.
My ex kept her's in an unprotected excel file. I never peeked, I was just surprised when I saw her accessing it on her laptop.
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Honestly, a physical password book isn't a bad idea.
Not accessible via the internet, and in most cases if someone has physical access to your system you're done for anyway.
The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.
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I've not found anything better. Storing on my computer, or worse someone else's computer, doesn't seem safe.
It's pretty safe. Competent password managers will be heavily encrypted. Having your passwords hacked is essentially unheard of. You don't have to worry about it being on someone else's computer as without your master password the password file is useless.
I think the biggest case was LastPass, and they did it by getting a keylogger onto a developers PC to get at their password, but afaik customer passwords were safe unless your master password was weak or reused from a breached one.
But, a notebook isn't hackable at all. But then the people around you could potentially get into it, which is a far more likely threat for a ton of people.
Either way use 2FA at every site that will allow it.
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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?
How do you syncronize it between multiple devices and operating systems?
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My ex kept her's in an unprotected excel file. I never peeked, I was just surprised when I saw her accessing it on her laptop.
All the effort of inputting data into a password manager, but none of the security.
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It's pretty safe. Competent password managers will be heavily encrypted. Having your passwords hacked is essentially unheard of. You don't have to worry about it being on someone else's computer as without your master password the password file is useless.
I think the biggest case was LastPass, and they did it by getting a keylogger onto a developers PC to get at their password, but afaik customer passwords were safe unless your master password was weak or reused from a breached one.
But, a notebook isn't hackable at all. But then the people around you could potentially get into it, which is a far more likely threat for a ton of people.
Either way use 2FA at every site that will allow it.
One master password to rule them all, One server to find them, One password to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
Yeah I use 2FA with the master notebook.
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I'm not in their target audience.
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Honestly, a physical password book isn't a bad idea.
Not accessible via the internet, and in most cases if someone has physical access to your system you're done for anyway.
The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.
Don't forget to use diceware. The human mind is not random enough https://www.eff.org/dice
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Oh yeah, this is for my in-laws. This is peak boomer tech right here.
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Here's the thing .. as crazy as a notebook with passwords sounds, it's not accessible to someone across the internet.
Their Ring camera that points directly at the desk they keep this notebook on: "it's showtime"
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Honestly, a physical password book isn't a bad idea.
Not accessible via the internet, and in most cases if someone has physical access to your system you're done for anyway.
The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.
Yeah, my in-laws have such a book and it honestly is great. They live in their own flat where nobody can access the book without breaking in. They do not save their passwords in their browser, so anyone hacking into their PC can't grab them. If they want to login into an account, they take out their book, put in the user name and unique password and that's it. Quite the good method and I really do not see many problems there.
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Honestly, a physical password book isn't a bad idea.
Not accessible via the internet, and in most cases if someone has physical access to your system you're done for anyway.
The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.
Yep. My Dad in his late 70s uses this system and it works great for him.
People make fun of it, but for people with low tech literacy this is actually far better than having a mish-mash of solutions where some their logins end up automatically saved in iOS on their phone, some are saved in Chrome on the desktop, some are just in their head, they don't know where anything is, and are constantly losing access and resetting credentials all the time.
And it definitely reduces the burden on me of parental tech support, when its all in the book.
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Honestly, a physical password book isn't a bad idea.
Not accessible via the internet, and in most cases if someone has physical access to your system you're done for anyway.
The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.
My Mum died recently and my step dad is shit with tech, so their password book was invaluable in helping us gain access to her Apple account and her phone. It meant we were able to get to her iCloud passwords, so now we have access to everything.
So yeah, password books are actually pretty handy.
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Honestly, a physical password book isn't a bad idea.
Not accessible via the internet, and in most cases if someone has physical access to your system you're done for anyway.
The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.
What this book likely doesn't suggest, is to just code the username.
I have 2FA backup codes in my go bag and nowhere do I write the usernames or even the service if it's important.
You know your email address. If you lose this in an airport, writing "main email" makes it useless to anyone else.
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My master password is physically present as a mnemonic device, but not available digitally. Anywhere.
Beyond that I really cannot recommend this book: You need to be able & willing to type your passwords out, which means simpler and shorter passwords. I use 99 character complete random ASCII-strings by default. Try typing that in even once.
But there's a different, unspoken criticism here: don't store your database on a 3rd party server, a.k.a. "The Cloud". I use KeepassXC btw. - and my very own "cloud".
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Would you trust Amazon or any huge corporation with all your login and passwords ?
Surely they didn't backdoor a notebook?
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Honestly, a physical password book isn't a bad idea.
Not accessible via the internet, and in most cases if someone has physical access to your system you're done for anyway.
The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.
The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.
I disagree. Using this book will always lead to shorter passwords that are easier to type. That's the main weakness imo.
Or in other words: it really depends what the user fills it with. It should be accompanied by a little machine that spits out random passwords, I'm thinking a rubics-cube-shaped bling pendant at the end of the bookmark band.
