Changed my mind about password managers after getting hit in July

I used to think password managers were just another thing to break or get hacked. Last July I had my email compromised because I reused a password from 2016. That login was on some random forum that got breached. Someone got into my email and tried resetting my bank password. It took me a full weekend to change everything. A friend at work kept telling me to try Bitwarden for months. Finally set it up in August and now I don't think I can go back. Has anyone else been stubborn about these things and then switched?

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quinna892d ago

That part about being stubborn is so true. I think we all get into this mindset where if something isn't broken we just leave it alone, even when people tell us to fix it. It's like how I avoided switching to a smart thermostat for years until my old one died in the middle of winter. Sometimes you just need a hard lesson to see why a better system exists.

the_lee2d ago

Hard disagree, sometimes it's smarter to leave well enough alone and not fix what works.

kelly.charlie1d ago

Think about it this way. Sometimes the reason a system isn't broken is because you've gotten so used to working around its problems that you don't even notice them anymore. That old thermostat might have worked, but you probably had a ritual of setting it just right or wearing extra socks in certain rooms. The real value of upgrading isn't just fixing something that's broken, it's liberating you from all the little workarounds you built up without realizing it. Everyone talks about the hard lesson of something failing, but nobody ever talks about the slow drain of energy that comes from just tolerating a system that works barely well enough.