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by bokglobule 3259 days ago
Frankly I think people are insane to use any of these password manager products, whether SaaS or local. You're trusting a 3rd party to exercise control over your most sensitive digital information. Since the majority of people on HN are developer-types, you'd think "we" would write a little code, if necessary, for ourselves to make it easier to remember passwords. Basically a little DIY.

IMO, this will end badly.

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By responding to this comment, I increase my chances of being victimized by some percent. By disagreeing with you within my reply, I increase it further. By listing and drawing attention to my comment 'almost deliberately', it probably raises the 'rate' of increase. Using a paragraph much longer than this point will draw further scrutiny.

A password manager is good<>great [the] most<>majority of the time. By drawing attention to yourself in a manner as small as this or as largely as describing my exact setup and process, I should start to worry for myself and my digital security. By stating that locks are meant for honest people I should be able to draw in some agreement by readers of this comment. Any and all of these points will raise me out of the 'crowd' of password manager users and paint me some shade of a target to malicious activity.

However, I believe that notwithstanding the above information, the average user is 99<>100% safe using a password manager in best practice settings.