Realized my password manager was a lie after 4 years

I thought I was the security guru because I used a password manager. Then last month I saw my master password sitting in a draft email on my phone. I don't even remember typing it there, probably from 2022. If my phone got nabbed at a coffee shop near downtown Portland, someone would've had every single account of mine. Has anyone else caught themselves storing secrets in the dumbest places?

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cole_murphy18d ago

Draft email? That's wild. I've done some dumb stuff with passwords but that's a whole other level, like your phone was just sitting there with the keys to your whole life in a half-typed note, probably with "hey don't forget" or something. I once wrote my bank PIN on a sticky note and taped it to the back of my debit card, but that was like 15 years ago and I was a teenager. This is way more recent, and it's scary how easy it is to autopilot into a draft box and never look back. My hands would be shaking deleting that thing, and I'd probably still be paranoid for like a month. Hopefully you cleared it out before anything weird happened.