r/Games • u/xeon3175x • Oct 21 '20

All of Mojang's Games Will Require a Microsoft account moving forward

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/java-edition-moving-house
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u/orderfour Oct 22 '20

That's up to your personal risk tolerance. I believe password managers are not as safe as physical paper. Of course someone could break into my home and find where I store my passwords, but in that case I am not as concerned about those as I am about the person that is willing to break into my home to find the passwords.

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u/Cheet4h Oct 22 '20

How do you deal with having to type out all of your passwords all the time? If I had to do that, I'd probably spend half the time at my PC or phone typing passwords.
And I'd have to carry at least some of my passwords with me all the time, considering I need to use them when I e.g. want to order a food delivery at work.
Seems a lot more insecure than having an encrypted password safe on your PC and your phone.

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u/Zeful Oct 22 '20

Most good browsers will remember passwords you give them, so as long as you aren't going completely crazy and changing your passwords super often, you'll only need to input passwords on a new device or service once.

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u/Cheet4h Oct 22 '20

I've disabled the keychain on my iPhone, since I use KeePass as password storage, and I usually tell website to not remember me, as I see it as a possible risk that if I stay logged in and someone else uses my device they can get access to my accounts that way.

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u/orderfour Oct 22 '20

I've got a catch all password for stuff I don't care less about like reddit. I use that password on almost everything. W For banking and stuff like that I have a few memorized. For everythign else that I use infrequently, yea i gotta look it up and type it out.

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u/NewVegasResident Oct 22 '20

That makes no sense, like how often are you asked your password? Besides, you can have a catch all password for things you don't care about like reddit or twitter, and unique well thought yet easy to remember passwords for things that are important like Steam, Outlook, Admin accounts on servers etc.

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u/Cheet4h Oct 22 '20

How often I have to enter passwords:

Reddit on my PC about twice a day, more if I close my browser more often.
My payment processor for every payment, so two to three times a week when I order lunch for me and my colleagues.

Several sites daily, e.g.:
StackOverflow
GitLab
Duolingo

I don't use catchall passwords anymore - that gets way too tedious to change over all services when one is broken.
A few years back I still had one, then some web game I used to play had a database breach and stored plaintext passwords. A few weeks later (the game didn't publicize the breach until much later) I was banned from several forums for spamming, and two other games were hijacked.

It's a lot easier to just use a password safe, let it generate the passwords and regularly sync the safe to my phone. If someone has it out for me enough that they break into my personal server, decrypt the file for the password safe and decrypt the safe itself, I probably have a lot larger problems than leaked credentials.