I was storing my passwords in a plain text file on my desktop for a full year

I was helping my friend set up a new laptop and he asked me to send him a password. When I opened my 'passwords.txt' file right there, he just stared and said, 'You know anyone who gets on your computer can just read that, right?' It hit me that my whole system was one malware infection away from giving everything away. I spent the next evening moving everything into Bitwarden instead. What's the best free password manager you guys have found?

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2 Comments

xena88626d ago

Plain text is fine if you trust your own computer.

hannah24026d ago

Trust your own computer" is a wild take these days. Malware and remote access are real threats, so that trust is pretty thin. It's not just about someone sitting at your desk.