Okay.

See here’s the thing:

You have to remember:

  1. BIOS password (you’re supposed to set one, right? I mean… so your that sibling/roomate/kids/family doesnt mess around and replace your OS with a malicious OS)
  2. Full Disk Encryption password and then finally
  3. The user password

Like that kinds breaks my brain

Do y’all just put those in your password manager… then only have to remember

  1. Master Password to password vault and
  2. Phone lockscreen

Is this the “Standard Operating Procedure”?

But if you are paranoid and set a full alphanumeric password/passphrase… then you have to remember two differen passphrases…

Or couldn’t you just simplify it to like just ONE, like:

Can you have the same password for Phone Lockscreen as the Password Vault Master Password?

So that you Only ever need to remember exactly ONE password

Is this a good idea?

My head hurts from this…

Idk how to do this…

I wanna simplify my digital stuff… my stuff is so disorganized…

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    2·
    4 days ago

    IDK about any “standard operating procedure” for passwords, but I have a single password manager password, a couple computer login passwords, and my phone pin/pass memorized. The rest relies on the hope that nobody has access to my password manager and I don’t have any keyloggers or any other nasty malware/virus/whatever installed on my device.

    I have yet to do BIOS password stuff or FDE, but memorization is probably the best way to keep them safe.

    On a side note, anybody have some experience with encrypting a drive that’s been in use for a few years and is full of stuff? I’m a little apprehensive to just encrypt a drive and realize I fucked up and be locked out forever.

    Edit:

    Bank password also memorized! That’s an important one I would never store in a password manager.

    • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
      2·
      4 days ago

      I can’t help you with full encryption after the fact, but if you do decide to do it, make a snapshot first. Clonezilla makes it easy, and you can encrypt it.

      If anything goes wrong when you do the encryption, you can always roll back to your snapshot.

      You may already know all that, but I thought I would mention it.

      I use the same tool to make snapshot when I change OS and drives, and use the snapshot to make a VM. If I forgot anything in the new OS, it’s all their in the VM of my old OS.