this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2025
510 points (96.7% liked)

Technology

76813 readers
2303 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Use the "passwords" feature to check if one of yours is compromised. If it shows up, never ever reuse those credentials. They'll be baked into thousands of botnets etc. and be forevermore part of automated break-in attempts until one randomly succeeds.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just as an example, 1Password has a secondary encryption key that they can’t even recover. If you lose it, you’re fucked. I doubt the chances of that being cracked are any good at all.

Bitwarden has no secondary key, and the master key is never sent to the server. All they get is an email address and encrypted data. If you forget your key, your passwords cannot be accessed, which means an attacker is screwed too.

There are tons of ways to give yourself ways to "recover" your password that don't compromise you in a breach scenario:

  • logged in devices - they have the key decrypted and can generate a new one, re-encrypt, and overwrite the data server-side
  • store a physical copy of the password at home somewhere (notebook?)
  • share passwords with a trusted person (SO) for critical shared accounts
  • securely store an unencrypted backup of your password vault (say, on a personal computer with full disk encryption)

Maybe that's how 1password works, idk, but I do recommend verifying that there's no password recovery option on whatever password manager service you use.