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Add-on: same password, same identity.
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There are libre off-line password managers. Variants of Keepass for example.
Indeed it's a bad idea to store passwords in a propietary system. Specially a cloud based one being hacked time to time, like 1password.
I'm unaware of 1password ever getting hacked.
Even if they did, there's some really smart technology at play here. I think your paranoia here is unjustified. I felt the same way until I read about their technology. At that point I felt comfortable using their service.
I mean, just three days ago we had this incident, which is probably what they are referring to: https://blog.1password.com/okta-incident/
Anyway, iirc, 1password is architected in a way where a breach won't actually disclose the passwords of their users, but I'm too tired to do the requisite double-checking to verify it
https://cybersecuritynews.com/1password-hacked/?amp
You are right in a way. I always assume company sysadmins have access to company data, even if they say the opposite, and I always assume there are undisclosed data leaks. Which may seem a little paranoid.
It's like closing your car's door when leaving it alone: Is it paranoid to assume that always there are someone willing to steal stuff?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/10/24/no-1password-has-not-just-been-hacked-your-passwords-are-safe/?sh=583d97333a09
1password employees don't have access to the data let alone anyone else. The encryption is not bullshit
That's a common good practice.
It's still good idea to assume the opposite.
If you can see plain text passwords, some malicious actor at their side can too. No matter if it's encrypted at rest.
No, I don't think it's healthy to move through life in such a paranoid state. If I thought that, I wouldn't use a password manager and that would leave several problems unsolved, chiefly I would only be able to remember a couple passwords, opening my identity up for hacking several orders of magnitude likelier to actually happen than 1password's entire technology stack failing at its one job.
A lot of weird hate for 1Password on Lemmy the past couple days. I highly recommend reading their white paper, I think most of the hate comes from ignorance of what they are actually doing.
https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-paper.pdf