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by ramraj07 1931 days ago
Driving in a highway isn't secure, but only Japanese manga characters avoid leaving their town because of it. You pick your battles.

I just never save my core Google password and bank passwords in a password manager, and a willing to risk the vanishing possibility that my password manager might be evil or dumb. Also I am fairly aware of my deal with the devil with regards to having Google manage most of my online information.

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Your threat model doesn't really make sense either. If your password manager is evil, you're probably screwed anyways because on non-sandboxed platforms (ie. windows, linux, maybe mac), there's basically zero security between applications so there are a variety of ways it can get your google/bank passwords. As for the "dumb" bit, that can almost be entirely mitigated by using a password manager that doesn't have network functionality.