Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?

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Post by dole » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 4:07 PM UTC

elkos wrote: post #150

JohnBerea wrote: post #148

I just use KeePass, and Syncthing to automatically sync its encrypted password file (and other files I care about) to my android phone and all my windows computers. No cloud needed.

Is this actually so simple?

Not as simple as just using Dropbox, but it's probably simpler than you think. Was using LastPass and configuring Syncthing (on Windows) seemed daunting until someone here on HN mentioned SyncTrayzor. Syncthing runs as a Windows Service and you access it through a local webapp; SyncTrayzor wraps it into a much friendlier tray/desktop accessible app.

https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor

Re: Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?

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Post by tatersolid » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 9:53 PM UTC

sys_64738 wrote: post #99

The only way to protect your information from being stolen is to not store it on somebody else's server. Every 'cloud' server is on compromise away from draining your bank account.

Your local machine or private server is far more likely to be compromised by malware, IoT bug, or the unpatched zero-day of the week than infrastructure run by a professional security team with 24x7 staffing and TEXA$ to lose if they screw up.

Do you pore through all the logs on your system every few minutes looking for anomalies? Do you inspect every line of code before it gets anywhere near production?

Re: Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?

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Post by zacky777 » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 9:21 AM UTC

Not at all. First of all, it's unnecessary, but the idea itself is not very sound in the first place.

Re: Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?

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Post by arnold_weber » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 9:54 AM UTC

Ok

Re: Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?

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Post by banjar » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 12:31 PM UTC

I wish I could entrust an entity with my passwords but I'm too paranoid. Now I have several variations of a single password for general usage :/

Re: Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?

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Post by WesternTelepwn » Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 3:45 PM UTC

I have had good success with LastPass keeping it updated and using the binaries on my devices. I don't fully trust anything but also using Authy 2FA on whatever I can as well.

Re: Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?

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Post by avl999 » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 9:21 AM UTC

My password manager is the "Forgot your password?" link.

Re: Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?

#198

Post by leon1212 » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 11:27 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?

#199

Post by saint_abroad » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 1:48 PM UTC

saint_abroad wrote: post #14

The cloud is not the automatic solution to the problem of passwords- chiefly that third parties cannot be trusted to keep them secure.

update. LastPass leaks credentials from previous site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20983344