Imagine trusting Google with your passwords
this post was submitted on 24 May 2024
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Who do you trust with your passwords?
Proton. Bitwarden
Nice try, social engineer /s
No thanks.
Cool I guess?
Personally, I use Bitwarden with my wife. We pay $10/year, and we share a few things:
- streaming services
- online shopping services
- some bank accounts
Basically, if it's something that doesn't allow separate logins and both of us will need, we share them.
Everything else is not shared. $10/year is completely fair to me, and I'm probably going to upgrade to the family plan at some point. I plan to self-host soon, so I'll have to see what plan we need to do that.
Bitwarden, DNS and email are the 3 services I pay for.
Passwords can't be inaccessible, free DNS services never have an LE API, and email is extremely difficult to self host. The uptime and security I expect for these things means I'm happy paying someone else to take care of it.
Bitwarden seem to be a great company and doing everything right (even though they are being annoyingly slow with passkeys on android, my only fault with their service).
Their subscription is extremely reasonable, so even if I figured I could self host it, I'd rather pay bitwarden
What do you use for email?
I honestly don't like passkeys, at least how they currently work. It seems the intent is to replace MFA with just one factor. I prefer 2FA with TOTP separate from my password manager, which means an attacker would need to exploit both to access my accounts.
That said, it's a sticking point for many people, so I hope Bitwarden gets it soon. I just probably won't use it.
From my understanding, passkeys is supposed to be something you have (phone) and something you know (pin) or something you are (biometrics)
I still use hardware keys like a yubikey (something I have) and my normal password via a password manager.
Uh oh, Google's starting to catch up to Nextcloud.
They're probably doing this to catch up with Apple though :)
Why the hell would I do that?
We watched a show where there was a concept called a Dead man's switch, and my wife asked me if I would ever do something similar, but include all my passwords, for everything.
"Absolutely not." I told her.
No one can know about my smut logins.
Why?
We're using it for streaming services, anything with loyalty plans, insurance, catering plan, routers and other common utility non-personal stuff.
And yet you still can't share numbers, names and addresses via Contacts.
Calendar supports sharing really well, with the option to show other people's calendars without merging them. And docs, of course. But not something as simple as an address list.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Google is now letting users securely share passwords with members of their own family group over the internet, making it easier for everyone in the household to access passwords for shared services like Netflix.
The new ability is included in the Google Play services update for May 2024 that’s rolling out now, as reported by Android Authority.
The new password sharing feature just applies to ones that are stored in Google Password Manager, the company’s service that natively stores your passwords and passkeys in Chrome and Android and is linked to your Google account.
As of today, the new password sharing feature works on mobile — but apparently not via Chrome on desktop, yet.
Once you share a password with one of your family members, a copy of it will be saved into that member’s own Google Password Manager.
So if you want to share a password with anyone else, you’ll need to use Nearby Share to zap it over in person or use more rudimentary and / or less secure methods.
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