Password managers vs browser autofill - tested both for 2 months

Used Chrome's built-in autofill for years. Thought it was fine. Switched to Bitwarden after a buddy got his accounts scraped by a keylogger. Night and day difference. Browser autofill just saves passwords to a file anyone can grab. Bitwarden encrypts everything with one master password. Plus it generates strong passwords automatically instead of reusing the same weak ones. Anyone else make the switch and notice how much harder it is to go back?

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alicer538d ago

Oh come on, is it really that scary? I mean sure a keylogger can grab your master password but so can it grab your bank login if you type that in. And most people already type their passwords into websites every day. The difference is one master password versus 50 different ones flying around. I get the anxiety but at some point you have to decide if the risk of a single master password being grabbed outweighs the risk of reusing "password123" on 20 different sites. Is that tradeoff really keeping you up at night?

jennifer_jones179d ago

Keyloggers can still grab your master password though.

jennifer_jones178d ago

And even if you use a password manager with two-factor, if they get your master password they can still export everything... that's the scary part nobody talks about enough.

brooke_jones8d ago

Oh great, so now I gotta worry about my brain getting keylogged when I type my master password? Perfect, as if I didn't have enough anxiety in my life. Next thing you'll tell me is that my password manager is actually just a digital version of that sticky note I used to hide under my keyboard. Honestly though, at this point I feel like we're all just hoping the bad guys get bored and move on to easier targets. Like maybe if we all start using the same ten passwords again, they'll lose interest in the challenge. But seriously, the whole "they can still export everything" thing keeps me up at night in a way that's definitely healthy. I guess the real answer is to just keep all my secrets in an encrypted text file on a floppy disk and bury it in my yard, right?