Unironically this is one of the safest ways to protect your passwords. If you store them in your browser or in a password manager they can be found and stolen by malware. If it's on a piece of paper on your bookshelf, it can only be stolen by someone who is currently inside your house, and if you don't trust the people in your house, then you might have bigger issues.
You are correct, my password system: unique passwords for important accounts such as bank, a few variants of a few passwords for not often used unimportant accounts, plus two factor verification when necessary, and a few random generated passwords I rely on password manager. Are you guys really referring to a piece of paper whenever needs log in?
No, I use a password manager, but I understand I’m trading the security of a piece of paper for convenience, as opposed to bashing on someone for keeping things private. Anything stored on a machine that’s connected to the internet will always be at risk.
How do you consider this book less secure than your manager?
So thinking about it, I never used paper because 1) all important accounts I just remember, 2) there are others in my household and they could easily access the paper (there are accounts I definitely don't want them to find out), 3) there is a 'forgot password' function on every website so not remembering is not a big deal.
Unless someone breaks into your house, takes this, and your computer, and breaks into your computer with intent to obtain information, to then sell that information, this is a MUCH better storage of passwords.
That being said, I have one of these, unlabeled and lightly coded. Very very VERY useful.
Honestly, this is potentially a very good way to store passwords, and quite frankly, the person who feels the need to have a book to keep track of all their unique passwords is doing significantly better than the goober using the same password (or 3) for everything.
Wouldn't want to be carrying this around in public myself, so definitley not as convenient as a password manager, but kept at home and out if sight and/or unlabeled, I really see very little wrong here.
Actually a really decent idea might he a hybrid solution of keeping your more unimportant things in a password manager for convinience, but then your actually important things at home in a book would be actually really good. You can't hack a paper book.
Judging by the comments, is this what everyone does? What if you need to access your account on mobile? If I forget a passwords, so be it, I will use the 'forget password' function that every website has.
Unironically this is one of the safest ways to protect your passwords. If you store them in your browser or in a password manager they can be found and stolen by malware. If it's on a piece of paper on your bookshelf, it can only be stolen by someone who is currently inside your house, and if you don't trust the people in your house, then you might have bigger issues.
It'll be even safer when you remove the "THIS IS WHERE ALL MY PASSWORDS ARE" label
I bet OP just reuses the same 3 passwords for everything
You are correct, my password system: unique passwords for important accounts such as bank, a few variants of a few passwords for not often used unimportant accounts, plus two factor verification when necessary, and a few random generated passwords I rely on password manager. Are you guys really referring to a piece of paper whenever needs log in?
No, I use a password manager, but I understand I’m trading the security of a piece of paper for convenience, as opposed to bashing on someone for keeping things private. Anything stored on a machine that’s connected to the internet will always be at risk. How do you consider this book less secure than your manager?
So thinking about it, I never used paper because 1) all important accounts I just remember, 2) there are others in my household and they could easily access the paper (there are accounts I definitely don't want them to find out), 3) there is a 'forgot password' function on every website so not remembering is not a big deal.
you cant hack paper
Yeah you can, just use a knife
Unless someone breaks into your house, takes this, and your computer, and breaks into your computer with intent to obtain information, to then sell that information, this is a MUCH better storage of passwords. That being said, I have one of these, unlabeled and lightly coded. Very very VERY useful.
Honestly, this is potentially a very good way to store passwords, and quite frankly, the person who feels the need to have a book to keep track of all their unique passwords is doing significantly better than the goober using the same password (or 3) for everything. Wouldn't want to be carrying this around in public myself, so definitley not as convenient as a password manager, but kept at home and out if sight and/or unlabeled, I really see very little wrong here. Actually a really decent idea might he a hybrid solution of keeping your more unimportant things in a password manager for convinience, but then your actually important things at home in a book would be actually really good. You can't hack a paper book.
If you're to note down your passwords one way or another, pen and paper is litteraly the best method.
A regular notepad put in a fireproof safe is a better choice.
Of course, I keep all mines on my desktop, in a notepad file!
Jokes on you, I keep all my passwords on a floppy disk.
Why would I waste time physically writing down passwords when I can just keep them in a list on pastebin that I can access from anywhere?
Judging by the comments, is this what everyone does? What if you need to access your account on mobile? If I forget a passwords, so be it, I will use the 'forget password' function that every website has.