This is an update on my privacy setup since my last post. Yeah, I know WhatsApp belongs to Meta and is handing over all my data to the US, Israel, Iran, China, the Vatican, and Mars, but for personal reasons, I can’t ditch it right now. How can I improve my setup?
Consider dumping keepass for bitwarden.
If you’re using the password manager correctly, you will only use the password manager and have all different, impossible to remember and keep track of combinations of passwords and logins.
So losing access to the password manager would be catastrophic.
A tool like keepass relies on the user to not lose access to the password managers data, but many events far outside of the users control can happen. Natural disasters, confiscation and even good ol’ user error can lose access for the most careful users and cause seriously problematic situations.
A trustworthy cloud based option can close that hole and make very difficult situations much easier.
“My phone and computer were lost in a flood or fire. In order to receive aid or access assistance I need access to the credentials on them.”
“My phone and computer were confiscated by the authorities. They are locked and encrypted, but now I don’t have access to my credentials”
“Oops, I made a mistake!”
You almost certainly are better served by using a trustworthy service like Bitwarden that allows you to still do your shit in these situations.
I understand your concerns, but none of them really affect me. I live in a country located in the center of a tectonic plate, which makes it very difficult for natural disasters to occur; for example, high-magnitude earthquakes have never happened here, and tsunamis have never occurred within the territory either—at most on the country’s coast in 2004, but I don’t live on the coast or in a flood-prone area. The reason I’m protecting myself regarding privacy issues isn’t to hide from the government, but if it were, one of the things I’d worry about least would be keeping my passwords secure. What might happen is that I could lose the password file, but I already keep it on three different devices; if I lose two at the same time, I’d still have one with the file. In the end, both KeePass and Bitwarden have their issues; for instance, if Bitwarden’s servers were attacked, the passwords in the cloud would be at risk (although I know they have some extra protections in case that happens).
I live in an area I would describe the same as you described yours.
Each example given are things that I experienced.
Be safe out there.
I’m so sorry you went through that, but there’s really no way a massive disaster could happen where I live; like I said, the country is right in the middle of a tectonic plate.
Alright