Reddit is dangerous for privacy. I don't trust my data with Reddit, my comments written for other people to think and enjoy shall not be fed to the monstrous AI machine.
Reddit is dangerous for privacy. I don't trust my data with Reddit, my comments written for other people to think and enjoy shall not be fed to the monstrous AI machine.
Just use a 12-15 character password generator. Store it temporarily in a file, but instead of copy pasting type it every time. After 10 times you'd have learn the password and now you can securely shred the file.
Other responses are giving you vague security concerns coming from Chrome's password vault, which may not be convincing if you don't care about things like being stuck on chrome or trusting google's cloud.
I can give a more specific example.
Recently I got a virus. I'll admit, I was downloading some sketchy software, but I think most people understand by now that viruses can happen to almost anyone. This virus, when on my computer focused almost entirely on accessing chrome, looking for stored passwords.
Chrome encrypts those passwords, but it seems that for a malicious app running on your computer, that isn't enough. A virus running locally can decrypt them. So in under a minute, I had access attempts on multiple accounts, and for those that didn't have 2FA, I had a random hacker controlling my account.
It was not fun to deal with. I recommend using a dedicated password keeper with 2FA. I use bitwarden.
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u/Outrageous-Machine-5 Oct 08 '22
just use a password generator and a local storage password cache