I refuse to use password managers for security reason. If a spyware gets in my computer, these can be easily stolen from often poorly secured local password database. And using cloud service for my passwords? Excuse me? Giving out stack of my passwords used for login somewhere overseas? I can't trust such service if it comes to passwords. If I had to write and save my passwords, it would be in my personal closeth, written on a piece of paper. Not remote accessed from overseas. Free doesn't mean free, and paying for a service I can do on my own differently and without any financial effort is pure stupid.
I'm quite sceptic and paranoid in question of cloud services. Using for personal documents classified as non-confidental (so basically pieces of junk), photos and pictures supposed to share, why not? But password is something too personal to save it in cloud and too worthy to save it in computer. So I have two options: write it on a piece of paper and lock it in my room closeth, or just remember it. Understood?
Anyway, don't rely so much to the basic password rule. I'm not a person that could remember 50 passwords and write it to a piece of paper? Only if it's really important in terms of security. It's much easier to remember few passwords in cost of repeptitive usage than have passwords stolen or somewhat traded with them by so called "free" services. You never know who is currently viewing your personal informations, including passwords. That quite made me upset and scared at the same time. Upset because you're trying to force someone change their mind and scared that someone actually uses cloud service to store password. And by this you are actually breaking the most basic security rule in terms of passwords: NEVER TELL OR SHARE YOUR PERSONAL PASSWORD! You are sharing your passwords with a service you actually don't know anything about.
This is something different to password protected shared files. You have to tell the password if you want to share password protected file. And you can clearly see I've used very basic password, pretty easily guessable and weak to dictionary attack. I've set it only to protect it against curious strangers...
I don't know why the discussion has turned into password security question. I didn't want to talk about passwords security. I've just shared something I created with you, only set it password protected so any curious stranger that accidentally come across doesn't download something that is shared with a closed community...
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