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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Shoutouts to paper and pen.

Keep the booklet in a safe place.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If you never, ever need your passwords outside of your home, that's great advice - it's as secure as can be against digital theft. Less so against fire though, and backups are out of the question.

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Backups are easy? Just copy to another piece of paper and store somewhere else.

I'm just being facetious though.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not being facetious though. Off-site backups of a digital password collection are easy to setup and maintain. But when you change your password or add a new entry, it's going to be a pain in the ass to have to drive over and update a physical copy.

If you can live with those downsides, that's fine. But in my opinion it would be facetious to pretend a physical backup is "just as good/usable" as a digital one.

-edit: whoops, misread that as implying that I was being facetious. As you were sir -

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