smith.elliot•1d agoMost Upvoted

Switched from a password manager to a hardware key after my work got hacked

I was using Bitwarden for like 3 years, thought I was fine. Then our IT guy showed me how the breach at our vendor last March could have leaked my master password hash. That got me spooked enough to finally buy a YubiKey for 50 bucks. Setup was annoying for a weekend but now I don't worry about password dumps at all. Has anyone else made the swap and regretted it or felt way safer?

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theas281d ago

Wait, are you sure a hardware key is actually safer though? Like, I get the appeal of not worrying about password dumps but now you're putting all your trust in a physical object you could lose or have stolen. If someone grabs your YubiKey and also knows your PIN or you leave it in your laptop at a coffee shop, you're totally locked out of everything with no backup. Plus not every site supports hardware keys properly yet, so you probably still have some passwords stored somewhere or you're using fallback methods that defeat the whole point. And that 50 bucks could have bought you a year of Bitwarden premium with a way better backup system. Honestly feels like you swapped one set of headaches for another one lol.

pat_murray531d agoMost Upvoted

But what if you're blind @theas28, hardware keys are useless for visually impaired people mate.

fiona_carr261d ago

Yeah but losing your phone means losing your authenticator too lmao.