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Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data
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Yeah, those. Thanks for the example.
So is your problem with using a password manager at all, or just the companies/sources of them?
Any company trying to get my data, really, and my passwords are the most sensitive of my data. Even if I coded one myself, and kept it completely local, my passwords are all in one place if that device gets compromised.
I can remember my passwords, so why take the gamble?
People should consider using a double-blind scheme with cloud-connected managers.
The service you're setting a password for gets the actual credential, being two components , whereas the manager gets only
Consider the example of
U})wJAL0}RhIr')Rgs{,&^>I3/versusU})wJAL0}RhIr')Rgs{,&^>I3/basedIt protects against password database compromise at least. Keyloggers, MITM, etc. are another matter.