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Personal Finance and Investing

Pobeka

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2. Speaking for myself

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Mon Feb 15, 2021, 05:26 PM

Feb 2021

I would never, ever, ever give such passwords to another entity. Despite all the re-assuring words, and legalise, passwords given to another entity are out of your control, and those single site based databases become a *HUGE* target to be hacked.

The only way to keep secret, is never to share the secret...

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So for example if one has a password manager like LastPass and 1Password progree Feb 2021 #1

Speaking for myself Pobeka Feb 2021 #2

I'm also afraid that if they go broke or decide they're not in the password business anymore progree Feb 2021 #3

I use a password manager on my local machine with a caveat. Pobeka Feb 2021 #4

thanks for the OP bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #5