Vent: Spent $80 on a password manager and my mom still uses sticky notes

I paid for a year of Bitwarden premium to get the family plan. Set everyone up with strong passwords, two-factor, the whole deal. My mom printed out her login info and taped it to her monitor at home. She says it's faster than opening an app. Meanwhile my work emails got hijacked last month because I reused a password from 2016. So here's the debate: is paying for password managers actually worth it when the weak link is always the person typing them in? Or should companies just accept that most people will never change? I'm torn between forcing everyone onto biometrics and just giving up.

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charles_henderson19h ago

The sticking point (literally) about your mom's printed password made me reconsider.

rayc8319h ago

Yeah, I actually caught a podcast episode about this a few days ago. They were talking about how the biggest security risks are always the human ones, not the tech. Like, you can have the most encrypted system in the world, but if someone writes their password on a sticky note (or prints it out, apparently) it's all for nothing. Funny how the simplest things are always the ones that trip us up, you know?