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Serious question, my brother-in-law said he writes all his passwords in a notebook and hid it. Is that safer than my password manager?
So my brother-in-law was over at our place in Boise last Saturday for a BBQ, and he saw me pull up my password manager on my phone to log into the grill's wifi app. He laughed and said he keeps every password in a paper notebook tucked inside a book on his shelf, and that it's safer because no hacker can reach paper. I've used a manager for 4 years now and it has 87 logins saved with random stuff like Kx9!mQ2#vL. His point kind of stuck with me though because I read about that big breach at a password company in 2022 where encrypted vaults got taken. On the other side, my notebook would be useless if someone broke in, and I would never be able to carry 87 random passwords in my head. He also said he writes them in a code only he can read, which honestly sounds like a recipe for locking himself out. I don't know, am I overthinking this or is he onto something with the whole offline approach? What do you all actually do, manager or paper?
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jordan_hill1d ago
The "recipe for locking himself out" part got me, because I once wrote my own wifi password in a notebook and then couldn't read my own handwriting a week later. So a whole secret code system would end with me staring at my own notebook like it was written in ancient Greek. That said, paper does have one real perk, nobody is gonna breach your bookshelf from Russia. The catch is your house fire, your nosy houseguest, or your own dumb brain all beat paper pretty fast. I'll stick with the manager and just make my master password something I can actually remember, since apparently that's the one skill I have left.
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