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Store your passwords locally or in the cloud?

Posted on March 4, 2024 at 02:44 CST by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

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By Brian Livingston

Do you create a different username-password combination for every website where you register? This can prevent a data breach at one site from revealing to a hacker how you sign in at other sites. But it almost demands that you install a password-manager app to remember every combo.

All password managers, however, do not keep your secrets equally secure.

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.10.0, 2024-03-04).

Public Defender Bitwarden, Cloud storage, Dashlane, Database Breaches, Newsletters, Passkeys, Password managers, Passwords

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