Talked to a sysadmin at a coffee shop who made me rethink my password manager setup

I was sitting at a Starbucks last Thursday when this older guy saw me logging into something on my laptop. He asked if I was using a cloud based password manager and I said yeah. Then he told me about how he keeps his master passwords in a physical book locked in a fireproof safe because no cloud is truly unhackable. It kinda hit me different because I never thought about what happens if that company gets breached. Has anyone else gone back to offline methods for critical stuff?

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wendy3911mo ago

Yeah the "no cloud is truly unhackable" thing got me too. I switched my master passwords to an offline password manager that only syncs locally and it's been way less stressful.

hugomurray1mo ago

Syncing only locally" is the way to go. I keep mine on a flash drive in my desk drawer, haven't had a single worry since.