Re:Now I understand why almost no one uses encrypted email
by JoeAltmaier on Thursday April 16, 2020 @11:05AM
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All that took very much more than zero effort to set up. More evidence than people will put up with inconvenience for security.
Re:Now I understand why almost no one uses encrypted email
by setr on Thursday April 16, 2020 @11:15AM
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I think for most people, they're trading less convenience (manually dealing with passwords, and the randomly changing rules and resets different places use) for more convenience (autofill, managed & synced)
Which happens to also be more secure.
Re:Now I understand why almost no one uses encrypted email
by Spivak on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:06PM
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Sure, but people with PW managers are reducing their long-term inconvenience by paying a little bit up front. I don't use a PW manager for any security benefit but because it makes it easier to sign into things.
Hell, I store my 2FA keys in my pw manager and have it autofill those too -- a reduction in security! But there are some services that refuse to not spam your phone number if you don't set up some 2FA.
Re:Now I understand why almost no one uses encrypted email
by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday April 16, 2020 @08:38PM
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I keep my passwords in my head because I can't put up with managing a dozen different authentication schemes, any one of which could be compromised or lost at the worst possible time.
(I also have three hard tokens for from banks and investments, two ubikeys (both for LastPass, one in storage), and google authenticator on my iphone for anyone that offers it... so I've taken a step backward for added security.)