If you never, ever need your passwords outside of your home, that’s great advice - it’s as secure as can be against digital theft. Less so against fire though, and backups are out of the question.
I’m not being facetious though. Off-site backups of a digital password collection are easy to setup and maintain. But when you change your password or add a new entry, it’s going to be a pain in the ass to have to drive over and update a physical copy.
If you can live with those downsides, that’s fine. But in my opinion it would be facetious to pretend a physical backup is “just as good/usable” as a digital one.
-edit: whoops, misread that as implying that I was being facetious. As you were sir -
If getting a Dropbox account is too difficult for them, I seriously wonder why they’d be subscribed here, or reading articles about password management in browsers.
Shoutouts to paper and pen.
Keep the booklet in a safe place.
If you never, ever need your passwords outside of your home, that’s great advice - it’s as secure as can be against digital theft. Less so against fire though, and backups are out of the question.
I just store all my passwords in robots.txt on my web server, makes it easy for me to access them anywhere I go…
/s
Backups are easy? Just copy to another piece of paper and store somewhere else.
I’m just being facetious though.
I’m not being facetious though. Off-site backups of a digital password collection are easy to setup and maintain. But when you change your password or add a new entry, it’s going to be a pain in the ass to have to drive over and update a physical copy.
If you can live with those downsides, that’s fine. But in my opinion it would be facetious to pretend a physical backup is “just as good/usable” as a digital one.
-edit: whoops, misread that as implying that I was being facetious. As you were sir -
I have a firesafe at home for important papers, passports and some emergency cash. I keep my passwords there.
Well you can write a copy and keep it in a shed if it’s unlikely to also catch fire.
This is the first suggestion here that’s actually within the technical abilities of most people, even most Lemmy users.
The level of technical knowledge some of people here seem to think the general public has is absurd.
I’m usually the one promoting technical literacy to all but in this case I honestly don’t use a password manager.
It’s honestly seemed like more trouble than it’s worth, there’s a few websites where I just reset my password every time.
If getting a Dropbox account is too difficult for them, I seriously wonder why they’d be subscribed here, or reading articles about password management in browsers.
We’re lost
Because I’m interested in tech news, especially since the world we live in can’t function without it.
Besides, Lemmy seems to seriously overestimate the technical abilities of, well, most people.
Typically, the drawer just below the keyboard (in my experience)
If it’s my mother, post it notes stuck to the laptop…
Hopefully someone in the house is supposed to be there, or they just take the TV.