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[+] -23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Checked it out: apparently I had a mozilla account at one point in time. Hit 'forgot password':

Note: When you reset your password, you reset your account. You may lose some of your personal information (including history, bookmarks, and passwords). That’s because we encrypt your data with your password to protect your privacy.

Forgot your password: fuck you.

This is the exact fucking opposite of the behaviour I'd ever want from a password manager.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think that's what most people want in a password manager. The only way to have a truly secure pw manager is to encrypt it and failsafe to delete. That way if your identity gets stolen or email compromised, it limits the damage.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Said another way: if a company offering a password manager can recover all your passwords with you just clicking "forgot password", that means they can read your passwords in plain text (and so can hackers if the company gets hacked).

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Forgot your password: fuck you.

    This is the exact fucking opposite of the behaviour I’d ever want from a password manager.

    Wait wait wait wait, you're telling me you want the people who hold your password to be able to view them without your explicit permission (entering a secret that unlocks your vault)? Because that's what you're asking for - if they can reset your password and provide you your plaintext passwords, that means they can 1) read your passwords if they chose to and 2) you can be phished and have your account stolen and passwords provided to some rando.

    The convenience offered by that "feature" is outweighed by the potential consequences of it existing. Passwords should absolutely be a Trust No One (TNO) solution.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Pretty much every service on the internet does password-reset via a token sent to your mailbox, so if someone gets control of your mail, you're pretty much pwned anyway. It would be slower and more inconvenient for an attacker to reset everything individually, but I'm sure they can automate that.

    This is just security theatre. Burning all my data makes my life a lot harder, but an attacker would barely notice.

    If I can reset each individual credential via mail token, on the assumption that only the genuine owner has access to the mailbox, then I lose nothing by resetting access to the whole set of credentials via mail token, on that same assumption.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    It's only security theater because you have this kind of mentality:

    It would be slower and more inconvenient for an attacker to reset everything individually, but I'm sure they can automate that.

    then I lose nothing by resetting access to the whole set of credentials via mail token, on that same assumption.

    You're right that an attacker could reset everything if they had access to your primary email account, but 1) you should already have 2fa on that account to protect yourself, 2) losing access to your email would be a signal that something is wrong and gives you a chance to react before they have everything, and 3) there's a world of difference between having credentials immediately vs having to jump through hoops to reset stuff. Also:

    Burning all my data makes my life a lot harder, but an attacker would barely notice.

    Burning all your data means your attacker can't suddenly transfer the contents of your checking account away or buy all kinds of shit from trusted vendors just because they broke into one account. Security is about layered defense, not just giving the attacker keys to the kingdom because you couldn't remember one password.

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