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What stupidly easy tech solution do people gloss over all of the time? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it's the paranoia surrounding webcams. People outright refuse to own one and I understand, until they go on and on about how they're being spied. Here's the secret - unplug the damn thing when you think you won't use it or haven't used it in a while.

They, whoever it is, can't really spy on you on something that's already off and unplugged!

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[–] [email protected] 148 points 2 months ago (27 children)

Password managers. People will use anything but that: paper, notes app (without any security), using the same password everywhere...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I keep trying to convince my parents. Then they say but what if I forget the master password? I say they won't with a passphrase but they don't believe me.

Also I don't have experience with PW managers other than 1Password, Bitwarden and Roboform. I personally didn't like Bitwarden. I think it's UI is janky and oldschool. Roboform is so bad I don't even know where to start complaining. So I keep using 1Password even though the UI has been getting worse but it still works for me because of the good integration into the Apple ecosystem. But it's rather expensive for managing the 20 something passwords my parents have. I read about breaches on other PWMs sometimes so I don't really know what to trust and recommend.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Set my family up with Bitwarden. Had them think up good passwords, told them not to tell me, etc. etc. they went and promptly forgot it.

One of these days I'm going to set them up again but this time I'm going to have to save their master passwords on my account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Show them you can export the passwords and print them. It will help them to make the switch to know they cannot lose everything because it is on paper. It is what helped my parents

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Keepassxc works fairly well for me, with a few quirks. Don't know how it is on apple though.

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