Coworker laughed at my password manager and I'm STILL mad about it

I was setting up a new laptop at our office in Austin and my coworker Dave saw me typing in a 20-character password from my Bitwarden vault. He said 'you really trust some random app with ALL your logins?' and I tried explaining encryption but he just walked away. A week later Dave got phished on his personal email and lost access to three accounts. Has anyone else had people question your security tools and then get hacked themselves?

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taylor_barnes595d ago

OH MAN, EXACTLY this happened with my old roommate who used the same password for EVERYTHING and then acted SHOCKED when his Steam account got cleaned out. Bitwarden literally saved my butt last year when some random site leaked my info and I just had to change ONE password instead of panicking over everything.

the_gray5d ago

...and Dave got phished? I mean, that's almost too perfect. Like a cautionary tale written by the universe or something (and I'm not even a superstitious person). You'd think someone who scoffs at password managers would at least have decent phishing awareness, but nope, he had to learn the hard way. Honestly, Bitwarden or any proper password manager is way more secure than whatever mental system Dave was using (probably "password123" with slight variations, am I right?).