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Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by flemhans on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:31PM (#26549887)
Yes, password managers are way safer than copy-pasting. You don't want something as sensitive as a password in your clipboard buffer, either.
Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by reilly3000 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:33AM (#26551158)
Gah what then? I use strong passwords but almost all of them flow through my clipboard.
Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by Saris on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:16AM (#26554581)
I used to use Keepass with auto-type. I had a hotkey for it, and it would recognize the site based on the browser window title.

That would probably be the best of both, no clipboard, and no browser addons.

Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by lawtalkinghuman on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:47AM (#26554885)
Instead of checking the TLS certificate or the domain, you are depending on fak3b00k.com not implementing the same title tag as Facebook?
Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by Saris on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @05:56PM (#26573495)
That's something to think about. But I'm not sure how I would end up on fak3b00k.com unless something changed my bookmark for it, or I really mistyped it but if I did that the URL being different is a dead giveaway.
Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by abdullahkhalids on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:40AM (#26551790)
Some password managers will type the username/password into the browser (through a virtual keyboard I think), not copy-paste them to protect against clipboard attacks. Eg. Keepasssc
Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by 3np on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:18AM (#26551665)
There are non-browser-extension password managers that still emulate you typing on your keyboard, rather than going through clipboard.

Personally I use rofi-pass to access GNU pass passwords (so just a hotkey and search for password name)

I'd warmly recommend it (or whatever other client you use for GNU pass) but I'm sure you can find similar functionality for any other decent password manager.

Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by mPReDiToR on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:50AM (#26553908)
Firefox extension, Passhash NG.

Makes them easy to use, with no saved PW.

Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by jhanschoo on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:49AM (#26551544)
I a simple algorithm to generate a password based on the name of the service you are using, interleaved with a constant master password you remember. You can do the same thing with a password-manager password + clipboard, interleaved with a constant master password you remember, which should be even better.
Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by kgwxd on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:58PM (#26550104)
Mine clears the clipboard after 10 seconds.
Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by ProtoAES256 on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:52PM (#26550469)
You do realize that in 10 seconds your computer can achieve a lot of stuffs right?
Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by treesprite82 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:02AM (#26551310)
I don't think a webpage can read clipboard without the user manually pasting.

If there's some malicious desktop program running on your machine at the same time as the password manager then you're probably screwed regardless of whether the password passes through the clipboard - but maybe there's some subtleties I'm missing here.

Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by flemhans on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:04AM (#26555112)
I've accidentally pasted sensitive passwords enough times that I know the procedure is prone to errors.

If I have to do it, I immediately copy something else right afterwards, to avoid an accidental paste later on.

Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by treesprite82 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:26AM (#26556125)
10 seconds auto-clear (which is configurable) is short enough to prevent me accidentally pasting onto some other site.

Could be better if it auto-cleared after a paste, but not sure how feasible that would be.

Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by fsh on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:42AM (#26551499)
For example it could just read all the passwords from the password manager's UI.
Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by pyhtel on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:20AM (#26552768)
Between Keepass, 1passwword, and lastpass I've never seen a password manager that just shows the password without the user explicitly choosing to reveal it
Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by EricE on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:29PM (#26558430)
1password has the option to do so and I do it on my home desktop computer. Obviously on mobile devices it would be a bad idea and on those I leave that option in it's default, disabled state :)
Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by abdullahkhalids on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:41AM (#26551798)
The purpose of clearing clipboard is so you don't accidentally paste it into a chat window or something. Not to protect against malicious programs.