• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, a physical password book isn’t a bad idea.

    Not accessible via the internet, and in most cases if someone has physical access to your system you’re done for anyway.

    The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.

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      1 year ago

      The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.

      I disagree. Using this book will always lead to shorter passwords that are easier to type. That’s the main weakness imo.

      Or in other words: it really depends what the user fills it with. It should be accompanied by a little machine that spits out random passwords, I’m thinking a rubics-cube-shaped bling pendant at the end of the bookmark band.

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          1 year ago

          Which you then have to type out every time. Laziness wins: they will be shorter.

          The assumption is that the product is for non-savvy users. They might not even understand what you wrote up there.

          Autocorrect can help here, but dictionary words are easily brute-forced guessed. And - more importantly - that hypothetical user would have to come up with that idea in the first place. But people who come up with such ideas usually already use password managers anyhow.