It seems to me (hence this question), that storing all your passwords online and accessing them with a single “unlock” password would be extremely dangerous. If the locker service is itself hacked, then the hackers will have ALL your passwords for the price of getting one password.
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Ideally, everyone has a high strength password for every account.
But the thing is, everybody has tons and tons of accounts everywhere.
There are just too many passwords for a human being to remember.
This results in people using the same password in many places, or using easy to guess passwords, just so their ape brains can remember.
And not all websites are good with their security. Some no name forum with a security scheme that hasn’t been updated since 2008 might hold a password in plain text. This password being reused in a high security account. Stealing that password is easy and can be used to break into a stronger security account.
The password locker prevents this kind of attack, by doing the remembering for you.
They also presumably keep their security policies better than average.
A hacker would find a much much harder target, though the rewards would be much higher.
A human can also remember one password that is much stronger than you would normally put in a website.
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