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		freeone3000 on Aug 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1password is considering a self-hosted option to s... It's a password protected XML file with a GUI. If there's an attack surface to begin with, something went terribly wrong.

upbeat_general on Aug 9, 2021 [–]

Is this a joke?

If password managers don't (or shouldn't) have an attack surface, what could (or should)?

I could also describe all the data that google stores as "just a password protected DB with a web GUI"

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