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by WalterBright 43 days ago
A password manager is a single point of failure and should be avoided. I've heard other sad stories about someone who's pw manager was compromised and they lost everything.
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While you’re not wrong in principle. It’s still the least worst in the vast majority of cases.

I think the bigger problem is using your pw manager for 2FA too.

out of curiosity - what scheme do you suggest? I've always been of the mind that 'one thing to remember and secure, but secure it well' was the best option - 2factor and a 15+character passphrase meaning that nearly everything else gets it's own discretized blast radius.

Always open to better security, though.

Have a different password for every account, and don't store them on your computer.
True for KeyPass or 1Password, but not for GNU pass.
What do you suggest as an alternative?