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by derimagia 3095 days ago
Does make it more vulnerable to things like keylogging - electronic managers skip typing completely. Also it makes people create simpler passwords than they would if it was electronic and becomes pretty unmanageable with a large amount of passwords.

I'm not saying it's the wrong way to go but if electronic password managers "never made sense" then I feel like you don't have the entire picture.

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I think the threat from keyloggers is not as severe as the threat from clipboard scrapers. Apple and Google absolutely need to make a secure password transport mechanism to allow one app to fill a field in a web browser or field in another app that does not rely on the clipboard because even just expiring it after n seconds is not secure enough.