Am I the only one who thinks password managers are a huge single point of failure?

Honestly, I just hit 200 unique passwords stored in my manager, and that number genuinely freaked me out. Ngl, the idea of one master password protecting everything feels like putting all my eggs in one very hackable basket. Has anyone else looked into splitting their logins between two different services?

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reesemoore1mo ago

Isn't the bigger risk actually reusing the same weak password everywhere? My master password is a long passphrase, and I have 2FA on the manager itself. That feels safer than trying to remember 200 different passwords, which just leads to using "password123" on half the sites.

jenny_coleman1mo ago

It's like we've traded one kind of laziness for a smarter, more secure one, which is progress.

anna_fox723d ago

re: what @reesemoore said about the passphrase plus 2FA thing. That's exactly what fixed the same worry for me. I split my logins between two managers (Bitwarden for daily stuff, KeepassXC for the "oh god don't lose this" accounts like banking and my email). It's a little annoying maintaining two separate master passwords, but the peace of mind is worth it. The real trick I found was making each master password a random 5-word phrase from a diceware list, not a song lyric or quote (those are too guessable). And honestly, having that 2FA layer on both managers makes the single point of failure feel a lot less scary. It's not perfect, but it beats the hell out of using "Password1" for everything.