back on Google+, I had this collection of posts called "You Pay a Company to Manage Your Passwords for You?" where I'd post every goddamned stupid thing password managers did for several years.
I actually use a commercial password manager (for reasons,) but I'm not happy about it (for reasons.)
@nyquildotorg I love my little paper password book. It holds the first half of my passwords and as far as I know the NSA hasn't yet found a way to slurp data from it automatically.
@nyquildotorg Nah, fuck it. Basically 100% of the passwords can be recovered simply by spoofing my SIM card and doing a password reset, and I can just call Schwab on the phone. :D
That's the other thing. Why am I being so careful with passwords, when the site's idea of security is "send a text"?
@nyquildotorg every time someone says I should be using a password manager I ask "so if I'm not supposed to use the same password for everything, why am I supposed to put all my passwords in one place and then use a single password to secure that one place?" Lots of spluttering about how it's different.
@nyquildotorg I use an algorithm that even I don't know to generate long strings unique to each service. No password manager, it's done on the fly each time.
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