Try a Password Manager
A strong password is a good security mechanism but it means nothing if somebody steals it or you forget it. Thus, a lot of people use password managers—programs specifically designed to catalog and protect the precious codes.
Most browsers—like Chrome—come equipped with built-in password managers. The question is: do you really want to give your codes to a company that is already collecting immense amounts of personal information about you? Personally, I’m not a huge fan of that idea.
Thus, you can subscribe to a paid password manager service, which generally gives you greater control over your codes and better security. There is a variety to choose from: LastPass, Keeper, Bitwarden, 1Password, and many others. Such subscription-based managers will ask you to create a “master password”—the password to get inside the password manager. Make this PW impenetrable. On top of this, your best bet is to sync your password manager with a 2FA security key, thus allowing for interlocking security mechanisms.
The only problem here is that password managers do occasionally get hacked. For instance, the manager Passwordstate was hacked earlier this year, temporarily exposing users’ credentials for 28 hours—not very good! While these incidents are rare, they may still give some users pause.
