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> The same can be said of the password manager account. It's turtles all the way down.

What password manager account, what are you talking about? There is never any password manager account, yes, I have heard that some weird people are synchronizing their passwords to some strange 3rd party services but those don't matter. You have one password. Encryption password for login database and that one is local and never transmitted over the internet. If you know a password manager that provides this decryption password to their servers, please open the topic here and they will be bashed to hell for this.

I am a tad more strange, my password manager is synchronized with my sftp server using private key and I am not only randomizing the passwords for each site but also the email address (imagine sha(user+salt) + delimiter + sha(domain + master password)@mydomain.com). And I will never in my life use any SSO as they are mostly spyware designed for tracking users across the sites and certainly not for what they are advertised for. They will break with firefox latest addition? FINE! At least people will stop using them.

One thing are companies self hosted SSOs. Sure, I can trust those for company services. For anything else, like "login with google" or "login with facebook"? Yeah right, my hearth is jumping out of joy and barely waits to use it. It actually works in reverse, if you dont allow me to register using non SSO account (email, password) I wont use your service/webpage/whatever.




What about two-step verification via an Authenticator or SMS? Is that spyware? Or do you have a self-hosted solution for 2FA too?




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