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I hate 2FA Hell
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I don't use 2FA on anything that doesn't force it, garbage security theater because people don't use password managers or use the same passwords for everything.
I don't know what hurts more: People who don't use Ublock Origin or people who don't use a password manager. Such simple tools that eliminate 99% of the bs.
Security theater is an overstatement. If your password manager has a data breach (which happened a couple years ago with LastPass) then 2FA offers an extra layer of protection. E.g. if hackers get your email password, and it’s short enough to be decrypted, then 2FA would save you. Of course a longer password makes 2FA less necessary, but redundancy doesn’t really hurt anything
That's the thing, I use KeepassXC which is a local-only libre password manager. So someone would need physical access to my machine in order to copy the encrypted password database file. I'm the only one responsible for syncing the file across my devices.
Why someone would trust a proprietary always-online password manager that requires personal information and probably has ties to the Zionist entity is beyond me.
Like most things, it’s a balance between security, convenience, and reliability. A local password manager is a great option and I’m glad it exists, but I wouldn’t recommend it for everyone. If your password manager is locally stored and you have a hardware failure (say, you live in Asheville and your hard drive is underwater with your house) then you’re completely screwed. A cloud option is a bit more disaster proof because those services typically have mitigation plans to prevent that kind of disaster. Plus you have the convenience of device agnostic passwords.
lol
lmao even
i don't want to use a password manager. i want to record all of my passwords in a book after encoding them as rebus puzzles.
I do that literally, minus the rebus puzzle
literally just write them down nobody even reads physical books anymore