For me it’s the paranoia surrounding webcams. People outright refuse to own one and I understand, until they go on and on about how they’re being spied. Here’s the secret - unplug the damn thing when you think you won’t use it or haven’t used it in a while.

They, whoever it is, can’t really spy on you on something that’s already off and unplugged!

  • jonwyattphillips@lemmy.ml
    1919·
    3 months ago

    Eh, I don’t trust any 3rd party enough to give them all my passwords and I don’t trust myself enough to secure a server for self hosting a password manager.

    I know all my passwords, can’t forget em, no paper or notes, no repeat passwords.

    • Grunt4019@lemm.ee
      552·
      3 months ago

      If you know all your passwords and can’t forget them, I’m assuming your using some sort of pattern to remember them in which case you have a major issue in case of data breaches as your other passwords can be guessed.

      • bitfucker@programming.dev
        416·
        3 months ago

        Just as a heads up, sometimes the pattern is not that easy for computer to brute force. As an example, my old password contains a birth date but with an alternating shift making them a combination of digit and symbol.

        • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          3 months ago

          The issue is if you are a) targeted, and b)involved in multiple breaches. If they can get the pattern, they potentially get everything.

          Is it worth it? That depends. Are you willing to risk it NOT being worth it to a random guy in Africa earning a few $ a day?

      • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
        9·
        3 months ago

        Technically you could use PGP to encrypt a .txt file with all your passwords in it. Which would be more or less the same thing with a lot less polish to it.

        • communism@lemmy.ml
          9·
          3 months ago

          I looked it up for you; you can export your Proton Pass database as a .csv file and then import it into KeePass. Not sure about KeePassDX but on XC, there’s a csv import option. There’s also a json import option but it says BitWarden for that so I’m not sure if the json Proton Pass exports is in the same structure as KeePassXC expects.

          • Wild Bill@midwest.social
            21·
            3 months ago

            Thanks for the answer! Another question: does saving the data on KeepassDX keep all the passwords and such for me to import to other apps if needed? Or what does the file include?

            • communism@lemmy.ml
              3·
              3 months ago

              You can export as csv, html, xml from KeePassXC. Dunno about DX but you can just try it on your desktop if it’s not an option on mobile.

              You know I’m looking up all these answers right? I don’t mean to be rude but you can and should just look these up yourself. You can check import and export options by opening keepassxc/keepassdx and checking for yourself

              • Wild Bill@midwest.social
                3·
                3 months ago

                Yeah, you’re right. Sorry, I definitely have a tendency to treat Lemmy as a search engine sometimes. Nonetheless I appreciate you answering me!

    • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      202·
      3 months ago

      Fucking THANK YOU.

      A very good friend of mine doesn’t use any password manaher. I’ve often in the past told them why don’t they? They argue that then all their passwords would be gone if they forget that one master password. Okay, I say, how the fuck is having to remember 1 password harder than having to remember 20 passwords?

      • subtext@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        Any good password manager nowadays also has an account takeover feature if you opt in. Basically your spouse / child / parent can take over your account to recover it for you if you can’t get in.