If it gets stolen, you lose your identity. If you lose it, you can't get access to your life. Awesome
Not everyone's life is on the internet only.
The most ill conceived computer-related stocking filler on Amazon?
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#12Ok it's more secure against bruteforce hackers at the other end of the world, but you'd better have nothing to hide to your wife, children and coworkers with this kind of tool.
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#14If it gets stolen, you lose your identity. If you lose it, you can't get access to your life. Awesome
Then you buy two books and put one in a safe at a bank and, once in a while, you keep it in sync with the one you keep at home / on the road.
If a burglar steals it, you can run at the bank to take your 'backup list of passwords' and start changing your passwords.
If you lose it, same thing.
Then you re-create another book so that there's always one in a safe at the bank ; )
I've got a list of all my passwords, without any encryption, in a safe at the bank. They serve two purposes: in case I forget my passwords (I do write them down at home in some 'encrypted' form that is not meant to resist the NSA but that would stop 99.99999% of all the burglars on earth) or in case I die (my family would then be able to access my various online accounts).
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#15Writing down complex passwords is often better than using simpler ones you can remember. Especially if it reduces password reuse. The probability of your home or work place getting burgled is probably lower than the chance of the N random websites you have passwords for getting hacked or burgled.
True, and furthermore, the probability of getting burgled by someone who gives a crap about your passwords is pretty much zero. There is very little overlap between the sets 'burglars' and 'identity thieves'.
More to the point, once you take the label off it's just a black bound book. How many burglars are taking boxes of books out of houses? Unless you're the owner of a rare book collection, probably very few.
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#16Alright. Let's take a personal inventory.
Chance of burglary: ???% Chance that one of the 1000 sites you signed up for gets hacked because they're bad at security: ???% + 1
I'd much rather buy this for my grandparents and have them use 1000 complex passwords than have them use one password for everything and have them be screwed when X Service gets hacked.
But let's be serious, this isn't going to get stolen.
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#17If it gets stolen, you lose your identity. If you lose it, you can't get access to your life. Awesome
Then you buy two books and put one in a safe at a bank and, once in a while, you keep it in sync with the one you keep at home / on the road. If a burglar steals it, you can run at the bank to take your 'backup list of passwords' and start changing your passwords. If you lose it, same thing. Then you re-create another book so that there's always one in a safe at the bank ; ) I've got a list of all my passwords, witho…
So now you have two books that will be out of synch, which is worse than losing the book in the first place. And your book can still be stolen. Only this book will be totally up to date (which is fantastic for the thief) but the book in the safe probably won't be.
This is not inspiring in me further confidence in the methodology...
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#19If it gets stolen, you lose your identity. If you lose it, you can't get access to your life. Awesome
Every website has a way of resetting your password. You'd be fine.
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#20Ok it's more secure against bruteforce hackers at the other end of the world, but you'd better have nothing to hide to your wife, children and coworkers with this kind of tool.
That's actually an advantage, IMO. My wife knows the password to my password manager in case I get incapacitated. I should also put similar instructions in my will.