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[–] 40 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

If the computer is in even a marginally secure place, storing passwords on physical paper is better than what a lot of people do.

Of all the proverbial bullets I've been hit with, none had my name on them; they were all addressed "To whom it may concern". The times my identity has been stolen or my accounts compromised it was because somebody attacked some fairly large entity, like Alphabet or Equifax or Microsoft or Visa. Nobody's going to walk into my house looking for my passwords. They might walk into my house looking for my television, but that hasn't happened to this house longer than I've been alive.

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  • [–] 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    Yep, there's a reason 2FA recovery keys are usually printed and stored safely.

    With that said, one way to avoid someone compromising service A due to somebody breaking into service B is to have different passwords everywhere, so a Password Manager is more convenient anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 child)

    Which is why I use a password manager. There are some passwords that I do keep human readable and typeable, like my home wi-fi password, because...enter a password like ghQ953mGh0hY0eo5vgnj;lse%tp[n9a36 into my niece's Switch Lite when she comes to visit. For that I do the CorrectHorseBatteryStaple thing. But for most passwords for services that aren't in my physical control I use my PM's random string generator.

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  • [–] 1 point 42 minutes ago

    For home Wi-Fi I use a strong password, but that's because it's something I input once in a blue moon. For guests I have a guest Wi-Fi with a simpler* (still reasonably secure and random, but shorter and without special characters) password and a QR code for simple use, though they are rate limited and have no access to any other network clients.

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