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> phone app and sync for meaningful password management these days

Idk. I very intentionally decided to not have 98% of my passwords on my phone. (The remaining few rarely change and I put them in my phone by hand without sync.)

This decision was less because of security consider but more because I don't want to be able to access the services through my phone.

If then anyone (especially I myself) wants to pressure me into doing work or anything like that when I'm away it won't work because I simply can't. Makes it easier to switch off after work or on holidays.




I have all my passwords on my phone too (bitwarden)

But work gets its own separate password manager that only lives on the work computer and nowhere else. I’ll get fired before I even think about work outside of work hours let alone on vacation.


work in my comment also refered to e.g. student work and similar :-)

the company I'm now working for uses 1password, it's on my work laptop and only there, not on my phone, neither my private PC. Same for slack. Only office mail is also on my phone, so that I can call sick from my phone if necessary (but normal work communication doesn't go through mail at all, so it's fine).


I don't find that doing work when only my phone is accessible is a problem (though I'm sure that varies wildly based on your job / workplace-culture). However, I do find that most of the passwords I have saved are random app-services / websites for personal use, and I'd prefer to have them available if I need them -- even if all I'm saving myself is the effort of getting up and walking over to my computer.




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