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- Subject: [Discuss] Password managers
- From: joe at polcari.com (Joe Polcari)
- Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 19:00:15 -0400
- In-reply-to: <27efb5e9-05af-8827-2148-b9eaa5579683@borg.org>
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FYI last pass will offer a long random secure password to you as an option Sent from my iPhone > On May 5, 2020, at 6:56 PM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote: > > ?On 5/5/20 5:47 PM, Jerry Natowitz wrote: >> I've decided it is time to start using strong unique passwords on all sites. > > Smart. > >> What products will work on Linux/gnu, Linux/Android, and Windows 10? Is the integration to the O/S, the window manager, or the web browser? Looking for something that will work transparently across all the mentioned platforms, and possibly also Mac/iPhone. > > I get very nervous about a password manager that aims to transparently let me in everywhere it can. Seems a very hard thing to get right. Bugs lurk in hard code. And bugs in a password manager are potentially catastrophic. I prefer being a manual middleman for every password entry; I prefer a very-offline password manager. > > The result is the passwords I use most frequently I remember, so I just type them. The ones I use infrequently are infrequent, so I don't mind looking them up. > > Remember: All software has bugs, password managers are not somehow immune. > > -kb, the Kent who also expires his sudo password immediately, to make quietly tailgating in behind his use of sudo a lot harder...so he's like that. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at lists.blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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