Re:Ask HN: Are password managers secure?
by trekkin on Sunday November 04, 2012 @08:39AM
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If your system is hacked, _using_ any password manager is insecure. Some password managers also have poor encryption, so even read-only access to your password database can be bad.
KeePass (KeePassX in Linux) is one of the best, but a simple keylogger can get your "master password" when you enter it, and thus access to your password database.
Nothing is absolutely secure, there are just degrees of relative safety.
Re:Ask HN: Are password managers secure?
by JuDue on Sunday November 04, 2012 @10:03PM
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So I guess in that case, given even large software companies release products with dangerous exploits in them, password managers are a bad idea... why give a hacker a single point to access every one of your passwords?
KeePass (KeePassX in Linux) is one of the best, but a simple keylogger can get your "master password" when you enter it, and thus access to your password database.
Nothing is absolutely secure, there are just degrees of relative safety.