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This is incredibly true. The ease of use I will admit got me to use other password managers in the past before I rethought my approach maybe 7 years ago. And any manager is better than the spreadsheet users will implement if we dont give them tools.

Absolutely. Like I said: it's great software and they are doing all they can to mitigate the inherent risk it faces because it is one of their biggest attack surfaces. They do great work.

I'm saying I would just rather decouple passwords, and online sync, into two entirely separate sandboxes. For my purposes, I don't need to centrally assign or manage my users passwords from the top down, the manager is a tool for them to use as they like, and they can store PID in there as well, so I shouldn't have access in principle. I can reset the accounts I control, but I cannot unlock or recover their vault.

For a web managed service, through no fault of their own, there is a high likelihood Bitwarden will one day be vulnerable to a browser engine based zeroday at one point or another. And I have no doubt they will rapidly patch this. But it's a matter of time. And bad actors will be constantly attempting to break this quietly.

My only point is, even if onedrive, or GDrive, syncthing, etc, were vulnerable to a similar zeroday, it's not enough to compromise an encrypted vault file because even if an exploit grants access to the file, the KeePass vault management is still entirely separate from all online portions of the interaction, and an entirely different and separate exploit would be needed to exploit the database file if it was obtained, as the vault is not managed in browser.

So there is a much greater chance for me to be notified of a onedrive or syncthing vulnerability, and have time to update the services in my vault contents just in case, well before a brute force attack could (potentially) open it.

This has its own drawbacks, as if they do exfiltrate the file, they can use infinite brute force attacks to break any vault with low enough entropy, but a vulnerability in Bitwarden could expose similar if a bad actor managed to dump the contents.

There is no perfect solution, period. I just wager it's less likely for two zero day exploits to overlap perfectly like that on both my enterprise file sync software and my publically unlisted, undocumented, and otherwise undetectable KeePass Vault file stored in an arbitrary location with an arbitrary name and extension.

Oh certainly. I just mean that in an extremely broad sense, Bitwarden adds 1 more threat vector by being an online service. As a metaphor, if presented with a safety deposit box in a bank, and a safety deposit box in a train station with CCTV, even if the latter is incredibly well defended it still carries more intrinsic risk by being accessible.

That's all really. Bitwarden is great software. It being an online platform just has that inherent factor that a non-web solution doesn't.

Aka, if there is a massive breach in webview or a critical fault in SSL cryptography, this can be exploited. And Bitwarden itself is an attack surface to exploit. But in an offline solution, the attack surface of a vault can only be exploited when you get back online, and somehow actively choose to expose this or have a breach. The reason I use onedrive for the work sync (privately I use syncthing) is it would take two massive simultaneous failures to have an exposure this way. The sync service would have to somehow expose the file to a bad actor, and the file itself would have to have an exploitable cryptographic flaw at the same time.

You can access it offline.

I do not mean to imply the One Drive is offline. It's the syncing backend.

But if your internet is out, you can still open your vault and look up a router password, for example, because the vault is a file on your local machine.

I don't understand the extreme love for Bitwarden. I understand it's useful, but I want as few things with a webui and server instance as possible, especially passwords, the thing that should be most secure.

KeePass, vault saved into the user's One Drive synced folder is sufficient. It's secure, offline, and automatically makes backups. And migrates to the new system just by logging into One Drive.

Bitwarden and others worry me because they have a lot of exposed attack surface, comparatively, and require much more maintenance to keep secure imo. I don't want to expose any of that to a portal or anything.

That said, I don't hate Bitwarden, the bitwarden/vault warden software is incredibly solid for what it is.

So, by this logic, Post-War Japan was not a sovereign state.

How a country must operate during wartime versus peace is extremely different. And the UK in WWII also issued bonds and took debt. Were they no longer sovereign?

That part of your argument is ridiculous. Ukraine is an independent nation with its own sovereignty and territorial authority.

The Administration: lol no, make me.

They don't care what courts say and are openly disobeying orders, because no one in the enforcement apparatus has a spine to challenge this. The DC Police enforcing DOGE's order over independent agencies is case and point. They are too worried about the pressure from the executive branch coming to bear on them that they are in effect assisting illegal actions.

Download One Pace and watch a highly cut down version of it.

Dressrosa has some amazing shit in it but the anime was too long by half.

People have to eat.

Fundamentally the US is broken, and people don't have themselves to support themselves very long.

Medical debt can wipe out your meager gains incredibly fast. The stock market tanking erases your only real savings you may have had.

Under those circumstances, it's hard to take action when your hustling to survive.

These kinds of questions are best discussed with a therapist if you can see one, but yes, you can improve, and it doesn't mean you have to be solo to do it. But try not to let the relationship define you. You need to be a whole, complete person without the external validation. Taking pride in your appearance is good, but feeling like you cannot show your most intimate partner your bare face is some regressive thinking from older generations we should leave behind.

In time I hope you feel happier and more comfortable just being you, regardless of being with someone. Being able to find self worth solo makes you much, much more rounded as a person, healthier, and ultimately a better partner too. Good luck.

The comment above is a half serious joke, but you do seem rather desperate for the approval of your partner and their validation. This isn't totally healthy, and on one hand can be suffocating potentially, but can also be abused by a bad actor if you happen to date one. And those kinds of partners can sense and prey on that part of you.

I hope you have some positive friendships and relationships to help offset whatever is driving this feeling in you. In a perfect world, I'd say speak with a therapist but who can afford healthcare nowadays.