On 2021-07-12 11:36, Lamey wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:17:43 GMT, Scott Alfter
> <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> wrote:
>
>> In article <sch9i1$k05$1@dont-email.me>, Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> wrote:
>>> On 7/12/21 5:53 AM, Unbreakable Disease wrote:
>>>> My 50-year old brain isn't capable of memorizing that many passwords
>>>> anymore, so I use KeePassXC. I keep basically everything here including
>>>> my financial passwords and credit card data, with the exception of
>>>> passwords that I would have to remember anyway (full-disk encryption,
>>>> login, primary e-mail passwords, etc.)
>>>>
>>>> Overall, it's much easier to remember and much harder to forget 10
>>>> complicated passwords that you use everyday than 100+ simple passwords
>>>> you use every month or even less.
>>>>
>>>> I can't speak about Windows version of KeePass, because with the
>>>> exception of playing games not available on Macintosh, I haven't used
>>>> one since Windows 95 days.
>>>
>>> I'd like to use a password manager but I'm not comfortable with that
>>> data being on some server somewhere- allegedly encrypted or not.
>>>
>>> If there's one that keeps the data just on the local machine, I'd be
>>> interested.
>>
>> KeePass stores its file wherever you tell it. It could be local storage,
>> storage on a server you control (as on a VPS or a dedicated server), or
>> whatever cloud storage is supported on the OS you're using. I use a WebDAV
>> share on a VPS. It's accessible to my phone and my computers, but not to
>> others. (I suppose Linode could grab the file, but without the password to
>> unlock it, it's useless to anybody else.)
>>
> If it's out there than people can access it if they want.

Access ≠ decryption.

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