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yeoldefrederick

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yeoldefrederick··on Hide your secret key in plain site? Tell me the issues with this thought doodle
My concern with password managers is that if the password database is stolen with my master password, I lose everything. If this script is stolen off my laptop, what do I lose? Attacker would have to guess so much. Even if they did guess all 3 'passwords', they would still have to guess the site, username, etc. Plus, my master password isn't stored anywhere on my machine.

I don't care about forgetting a master password. I can recreate everything.

The flip side is my master password IS distributed across multiple third party datasources that I have no control over....