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Just a comment: IMO it's not worth using strong passwords on which you depend on privative/unknown security platforms. Who knows how many times they get hacked or have backdoors? Unless they specify they only store the hash I refuse to sacrifice one of my strong passwords.
Edit: To all talking about password managers. I don't believe in single point of failure as a way to go. The fact that i've to explain that xd...
Genuinely terrible advice. Every popularly available password manager service hashes all your passwords, if they have a data breach they have extremely strict reporting compliance and the majority of services will re-hash all your passwords. If youre so extremely concerned about that, host your own.
But what concerns me the most is
... What to you mean sacrifice?
Keeping all on one password (password manager) is a single point of failure, which i don't like. I mean sacrifice because my brain can only remeber a few 512bytes long passwords (again i don't use password managers because of single point of failure).
Isn't your computer a single point of failure? A keylogger will get your password database or you manually entered passwords all the same.
Who says I have the same password for my root, my user account, and my LUKS encrypted hard drive? Losing one doesn't mean losing everything like in a Password manager.
Not that, I meant a keyloggers could get the password to your password database in the same way it could get any accounts you log into by typing your password into a browser.