• just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

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

      I’m just being facetious though.

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        2 months 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 -