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Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. (www.forbes.com)

submitted 3 months ago by ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)

If you never, ever need your passwords outside of your home, that's great advice - it's as secure as can be against digital theft. Less so against fire though, and backups are out of the question.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 13 points 3 months ago

I just store all my passwords in robots.txt on my web server, makes it easy for me to access them anywhere I go...

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Backups are easy? Just copy to another piece of paper and store somewhere else.

I'm just being facetious though.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm not being facetious though. Off-site backups of a digital password collection are easy to setup and maintain. But when you change your password or add a new entry, it's going to be a pain in the ass to have to drive over and update a physical copy.

If you can live with those downsides, that's fine. But in my opinion it would be facetious to pretend a physical backup is "just as good/usable" as a digital one.

-edit: whoops, misread that as implying that I was being facetious. As you were sir -

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 3 points 3 months ago

I have a firesafe at home for important papers, passports and some emergency cash. I keep my passwords there.

[–] nous@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

You can have backups of physical books. Just copy the text from one to the other. Yeah it is manual work but so is writing the first one in the first place. You can then store the second copy in a fire resistant safe or at a friends or family members house (maybe inside a safe as well).

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Well you can write a copy and keep it in a shed if it's unlikely to also catch fire.