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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Having a password manager app is like having a safe in your house. A thief knows that, if they break into the safe, they will find something of value. But, if you hide your passwords in a document that only you know exists, it is very difficult for a hacker to find it.
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It would take a hacker 30 seconds to find your secret password file. Windows and Apple makes it easy as they keep an ongoing internal list of the most recently used files. That list (which certainly includes your password document) will be the first group of interesting files looked at by the hackers. The hackers know that the most used files are more likely to have value.