The day I realized my mom's old 'password book' was actually smart

I was cleaning out the garage last weekend and found my mom's old address book from the 90s. She had all her passwords written in it in pencil, bank logins, email accounts, everything. At first I laughed, but then I thought about how my own setup has changed. Now I use a password manager with 2FA on everything, which is way more secure, but I still kinda miss that physical book sometimes. Has anyone else gone from paper passwords to digital and felt weird about it?

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valwest20d ago

Paper password book sounds way more secure than trusting your whole digital life to some cloud service. At least nobody can hack a notebook.

amygonzalez20d ago

Wait, have you actually tried using a password manager before? Tbh, I used to be the same way, thought my little notebook was bulletproof. But then I realized if my house floods or I lose the notebook, I'm completely locked out of everything. Ngl, the cloud thing freaked me out at first, but most of the good ones encrypt your data so even the company can't read it. I keep a backup of my most important passwords in a locked safe just in case, but honestly the convenience of auto-fill and not having to remember 50 different logins is worth it to me. At the end of the day, I figure the risk of my house burning down with my notebook is way higher than some hacker cracking a properly encrypted vault.