More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user::Security experts believe some of the LastPass password vaults stolen during a security breach last year have now been cracked open following a string of cryptocurrency heists

  • Professor_Piddles@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    Any obvious holes in keeping a text file on my laptop that I encrypt when not using it? Using ccrypt on linux.

    I do not want my passwords - even encrypted - on the cloud or at the mercy of a 3rd party in any fashion.

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      2 years ago

      All it takes is a malicious program accessing your clipboard or running commands to find your password file while your machine is booted and decrypted.

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        2 years ago

        If something happens to your SSD, you lose all access to everything. And SSDs can die without warning, and be un-recoverable.