As we have been saying for some time now, both privacy and security when working with our devices is more important than ever. This is something that is extended to both desktop PCs, laptops or mobiles. To reinforce all this, we have different elements as happens, for example, in the case of passwords.
These are usually composed of a series of characters of all kinds that we must hide from the rest and that protect digital access to our equipment , programs and platforms . Hence precisely the importance they treasure, and more and more. But of course, the number of them that we must remember grows more and more. And it is that in addition to secure and robust passwords, the most appropriate thing is that we never repeat them in different credentials.
But at this time and for a long time we have a great solution, password managers. In fact we can use a good amount of services of this type, but of course, they have to provide us with total reliability . And it is to them that we are going to give all the personal access passwords that we have accumulated over the years, which is not little. As some of you may already know, we can use password managers that work online in the cloud, or locally.
Despite the measures taken by these companies, many still distrust when they come across a password management service, which works through the Internet. And in reality they are right, since perhaps those who work locally have some advantages at the moment, as we will see.
Why we distrust password managers in the cloud
There are several reasons why some are wary of using password managers in the cloud, on the one hand because they are stored on external servers. Therefore, either internally or by external attacks, they could be more exposed than we would like. On the other hand, we cannot ignore that in order to store these, all our passwords have to be transmitted through our connection , which is not always entirely reliable, especially if, for example, we have the PC infected by some malware .
Third, although this data that we keep is encrypted and protected, that is something we never know 100%. It is also sensitive information that we are making available to external servers. That is why we will never know for sure what those companies, especially the free ones , do with all those passwords and data that we keep. There have been cases in which it has been discovered that all this was sold to third parties in order to somehow earn something for the services provided as a password manager .
Therefore, as you can imagine, there are still very cautious people who prefer that the entire process of storing and managing passwords be carried out on their PC.