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Originally Posted by TNLAKEPANDA
I am always concerned about the password manager messing up and you can't access it for whatever reason. Then you can not get into anything because don't know the passwords. Agreed it would make life much easier. I think we will need a password to get past the Pearly Gates and into Haven !!!
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While LastPass does store your encrypted passwords in the cloud such that if you could not get online, you wouldn't be able to use your passwords, it has an option to allow offline access which caches them locally on your device. It is worth noting that LastPass operates with a so-called TNO security model (trust no one) and so, even though your passwords are in the cloud and you'd think therefore vulnerable to being hijacked, they are encrypted locally on your machine before ever being uploaded (using your master password). So not even LastPass can recover them (since they also never get your master password either). If someone could get access to the passwords in the cloud AND could guess your master password, they could possibly decrypt them though (which is why its important to use a very strong master password and/or turn on one of the many multi-factor authentication methods that LastPass supports).
Anyway I've had LastPass premium for years and could not live without it.
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Bob C