How does the secret jump from the PC to their phone? How do they know each other? ...does the answer involve going all-in on Apple forever?
How does the secret jump from the PC to their phone? How do they know each other? ...does the answer involve going all-in on Apple forever?
Your credential manager provides this sync and backup capability. There are dozens of credential managers available that work on all platforms. You don't have to use the default one on any given platform.
Bitwarden is my personal choice.
I still don’t like that I can’t use them on a computer that I can’t download bitwarden on. Library computer, etc.
Passwords I can see myself and make the informed decision to use temporarily somewhere else.
When was the last time you used a library computer, let alone logged onto a private service with it? This was a bad idea even 20 years ago. In today’s security climate, aw hell no.
Or my sisters laptop. & Fairly recently actually, to print something. Most accounts I don’t care that much about & two factor should be enough to save me I hope.
iCloud Keychain (or whatever the Google equivalent is). And as I said, it's a fantastic solution for the vast majority of the population (which, coincidentally, are also not Hacker News readers).
Can you keep access if they decide to shut you down?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42350245
They closed my PayPal account for TOS violation after donating to The OpenBSD Foundation. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.