Re:Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
by selestify on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @01:40PM
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What are you doing to do if your home burns down? If it's an emergency and you can't wait until you get home? If industrial espionage efforts involve stealing a notebook from your home?
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Re:Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
by qrbLPHiKpiux on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:40PM
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Back up, my man! 3-2-1.
3 copies, 2 local different media, one off site.
If your data's that important, secure the offsite with an attorney.
Re:Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
by scarejunba on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:43PM
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If you want people to not have your information you just turned this into multiple SPOF situation. Now I have to secure everything.
Re:Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
by prophesi on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:05PM
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There's no such thing as a multiple SPOF; that's called a multiple point of failure, which is a good thing.
Security is a battle of convenience. If your threat model is state actors, then it may well be worth the inconvenience to have your data secured in several different locations, running Tails OS on everything, scrapping your smartphone, and so on.
Re:Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
by ergothus on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:58PM
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> that's called a multiple point of failure, which is a good thing.
Totally leaving aside the argument you were in - multiple single points of failure are bad, and very different than the opposite of a single point of failure.
Having a SPOF means one thing will take you down. Having multiple SPOF means any one of those can take you down. Lack of any SPOF means no one thing will take you down, it will require multiple problems. 3 distinct options.