[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Password Manager

[Adam Broun]

If you believe Dashlane’s claims about their architecture, attacking their infrastructure wouldn’t help since they don’t store your master password or unencrypted passwords.
  

> On Feb 3, 2024, at 12:48, Jon Dreyer via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:
> 
> I share Derek's concern about data breaches. I also share the concern that Steve pointed out about the single point of failure on a piece of paper (paper does have other disadvantages, including lack of sort and lack of copy-paste). Plus, I'm ornery and cheap.
> 
> I have my own Web site, so what I do is to have a text file that's on the Web but unlinked. It has two kinds of passwords. For sites I'm not that concerned about, in the text file I have a password hint that I'm quite sure only I and one or two close friends could understand. For the more important sites, I use a random password (I have a short ruby program that generates them but it's easy enough to make up random enough passwords). But there's a secret but easy transformation I must manually do to the password that's in the file after I copy/paste it to the site I'm trying to log in to.
> 
> I can use this anywhere, with my phone or computer. Of course I have backup copies.
> 
> All of this would be much simpler to crack than trying to break into Dashlane or whatever, but given the target size and value, I'm quite confident that nobody would go through the trouble.
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