Passwords

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Encryption can be decrypted. A password manager encrypting your passwords is like saying your car has working brakes. It's totally unsafe to even consider operating without but it doesn't say much when it is there.

It's not a matter of "why should I trust them" but "why should I trust them more than the system that already exists". I get the appeal, but the hole is big.

If I forget a password I reset it. If I forget my manager's password can it be reset? Is the reset option, if extent, susceptible to attack?

If an account gets compromised it could have moderate repercussions, but probably minimal depending on the account, with maybe a couple exceptions. If managed passwords get compromised that's potentially everything. There has not, and likely never will be, an impenetrable system, so it is a possibility if not a concern.

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