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by __ddd__ 3402 days ago
An attack that requires installing a keylogger and communicating the results over a period of time is less robust than an attack that searches your system for passwords at rest. How often do you lose your wallet? Hopefully less often than you change your passwords...
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Either way they have to communicate online, and either way there is some data on my disk (cookies). Storing my 500+ password on paper is just not practical, and just storing a small fraction doesn't help much because those would be the most frequently used ones.

I've never lost my wallet, but my brother lost his a couple months ago. I never really change my passwords except when I was switching from my old crap password to unique strong passwords in my database. The problem with losing my wallet would be that I would lost access to all my accounts if that was the only copy of the paper. It would be an availability problem.