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- From: kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:18:08 -0500
Did you know that some software has bugs? It's true! Yesterday's Cloudflare bug ("cloudbleed") leaked lots of kinds of data. Including data from an unnamed password manager. No! (Yes.) https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/24/cloudbleed_buffer_overflow_bug_spaffs_personal_data/ Again: When choosing a password manager (when putting all your eggs in one basket), look for the one that is the most manual, with the fewest convenience features (such as auto-fill or being on online service, say). Your password manager *will* have bugs. Choose one that is most conservative, most isolated from the outside world, one that requires you be in the middle of every dispensing of a password. Then that inevitable bug (only one?) won't matter so much. Or, you don't have to do this. You could go with one that just takes care of everything for you, sit back, relax...and wait for the bad news that you need to rebuild your life. Maybe that news never comes, but yesterday's news suggests otherwise. There will be bugs. -kb, the Kent with bad news.
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