Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret

Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by grzm on Saturday December 30, 2017 @03:12AM (#16034367)

The password manager is typically on a machine you control. If your machine is owned, you've got issues regardless. A password manager provides a way to effectively utilize higher-entropy, per-account passwords. As with all security-related matters, it's a tradeoff. I expect many choose password managers for this reason.

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by Kiro on Saturday December 30, 2017 @06:50AM (#16034888)

Pretty sure the typical password manager user does not control the machine.

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by grzm on Saturday December 30, 2017 @01:24PM (#16036568)

In terms of physical control of the machine? In terms of what software is loaded on the machine? Would you elaborate on what you mean "typical password manager user" and "does not control"?

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