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On a related topic, a troubling new trend (to me) is the reliance on passwords being automatically generated/kept by a tool. You are putting your trust in something else for something only you (or a select group) should be trusted with. If everyone were to start doing this or a vulnerability was found in it and exposed, then attackers would exclusively target the tool or the password store, making many at risk.

It is a trade off, because you have the ability to use significantly more complex passwords that are harder to brute force or guess using personal information. Just don't forget that you are providing new attack vectors in the process. If they access your password store and you didn't know about it, how at risk would you be if they were to unlock all of your passwords?

Do you really understand how the password store and password generator work?

parent sadfnjksdf 12 years ago

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