• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    That’s true. But how does a randomized password generated by a password manager work when the service is accessed from 3 platforms? Like for instance Windows, Linux and Android?
    Seems to me that you need 3 different pieces of software, and just 1 getting compromised would compromise everything.

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      1 day ago

      It’s generally one piece of software, a browser extension, that works for all. Even mobile apps are often just webpages with extra steps, so the code base is the same.

      The underlying storage must be encrypted the same way on each.

      Yes, there are still potentially issues. I’ll come back to what I said at the start: passwords are a bad system in general, all methods for handling them are flawed, but password managers have the fewest flaws.