You'd be absolutely crazy in 2026 to be running without a password manager,
Chuck.

1Password
Keeper
Bitwarden

In that order.


On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:

> It depends on your settings.
>
> Of course, you need to unlock the app, but it has options for auto-fill,
> or you can click on the login & it will present you with options (in case
> you have multiple logins for a site), and so on.
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 1/6/2026 7:11 PM, Chuck wrote:
>
> So when a login dialog box pops up, what happens?
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 6, 2026, at 11:49 AM, Bill Prince <[email protected]>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 
>
> We have been using BitWarden for the last few years. It's not the simplest
> manager around, but it allows me and Georgia to share passwords for joint
> accounts, and it is open source (the only one I know of that is). It also
> supports passkeys for websites that support it. It works across all
> platforms (Windows/mac/Linux,Android/iOS), and it's got plugins for Chrome,
> Brave, Edge, Safari, and Firefox.
>
> $40/year for a 6-user license.
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 1/6/2026 10:21 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Got totally scammed.  Login.gov supposedly sent me a very official looking
> email saying someone had logged in a few hours ago.  Nobody logged in a few
> hours ago.  I scanned the header and it looked legit.
>
>
>
> It recommended that I change my password.  Clicked the change password
> button (without looking at the URL it was directing me to) and went to a
> very official looking page.
>
>
>
> But it only asked for the new password once.  That should have stopped me
> but I still clicked.  Then immediately tried to login with the new password
> and I realized I was cooked.  So I immediately changed passwords on sites
> that used that old password and properly changed the password on login.gov
>
>
>
> I am seriously considering going to a password managers.  I know nothing
> about them, how they work or if they are trustworthy.  I use 2FA everywhere
> I can.
>
>
>
> Opinions?
>
>
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