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by WalterBright 894 days ago
With a keylogger, you lose passwords you typed in since the keylogger was installed, but that is rarely all of your passwords.
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Most of these managers support some form of 2fa. I use a yubikey with mine such that if my master password is compromised someone would still need to obtain my security key. You can enroll multiple and keep one in a safe and one or more on your person. It's not perfect, but it prevents the vast majority of huge dragnet style malware attacks and a lot of the targeted ones until you get to the point where someone is trying to hunt you down on the street.

This still leaves a case where someone manages to get the final key out of memory but you're pretty hosed at that point anyway. I'd prefer a system where the yubikey itself is doing the final credential decryption instead of the CPU, unfortunately most people aren't that paranoid though.

Absolutely agree - that's why I said "so the real difference is you've conveniently pre-loaded all your sensitive information in one go for the bad actor."
The average person usually does the same but without encryption or strong passwords.

I’ll stick to passwords that are impossible to guess and an encrypted vault with multifactor authentication.