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[-] Ad4mWayn3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm probably an ignorant paranoid about them, I know I should google a bit of them, but instead I'm going for the ol' trusty ask the community.

Do they save your passwords locally or in the cloud? If locally, what if I want to sign in in another device? What if I lose the device I have my passwords on? What if they hack my device? If in the cloud: How can I know the service is not stealing my information? If I can access it anywhere, wouldn't that mean it also needs a password? Wouldn't that make it twice as unsafe as it would only take one password to access the rest?

Edit: Damn, I got extremely useful answers, I'm starting to like lemmy!

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago
  1. There are managers that will store them on their servers and others that are local.
  2. You can sync it through something like Google drive/Nextcloud.
  3. You should back up your password vault.
  4. Your device may be compromised, but your vault is still encrypted. Really depends on what kind of hack it is.
  5. You don't really unless they're an open source one like Bitwarden.
  6. Yes. Instead of remembering a lot of passwords, you remember the master password to your vault
  7. No. Because randomly generated passwords gated behind one secure password you remember is better than reusing the same/variations of one password.

You can try Bitwarden if you want a hosted solution that's easy to use. Or, use KeePassXC and compatible mobile apps while syncing it through a cloud service. I do the latter.

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