Pass Manager & Anon Email Forwarding | How Can I Improve My Security & Privacy?

[asayoyaasa]

I want to boost up my current online security and privacy, and to do that, I'd like to know more about it. At the moment, I am using a password manager to come up with passwords for all my accounts. I also use an anonymous e-mail forwarding service if I do not want my real e-mail address to be seen when completing a sign-up form.

I'm curious to know:

• Is there any other measure which should be taken in order to get a better security and privacy while browsing internet?
  
• To what extent can one trust password managers in average and are there any recommendations from you?
• When it comes to anonymous email forwarding what must I do to be sure that the service I am using is safe and it will not leak my information?
• Is there any other application or service that you feel I need to aviod in order to safe guard my online identity.

I will be glad to accept any recommendations, even the most fundamental ones or ideas concerning improvements in some ways.

[anarkiboy]

Many advanced users use password managers, for me it's a one point of failure and I don't think you should have your passwords stored on an online machine even if well encrypted because malware can easily get your main password for this managers with a simple keylogger or with more advanced techniques for the inputs that are meant to combat keyloggers like random virtual keyboard etc.

I am storing my passwords on an encrypted drive that is never connected to a machine that goes online, I use dedicated old laptop that will never see Internet for accessing it.
So when I forget any of my passwords, I can look it up on this encrypted drive, that's 1 password you have to remember as I find writing down passwords a very bad practice.

The password for the encrypted drive should be easy to remember but hard to bruteforce, it's not easy but you can do it  

Passwords managers are a blessing for script-kiddies, all they need is to catch your main password, download the file containing encrypted passwords and they have it all  

So my suggestion is, buy old used laptop - be sure it's offline (no hidden sim cards installed etc), fully encrypt the drive and use it for storing your passwords.
Or even buy some new cheap laptop, because why not - it's your privacy on the line here  

[Vod]

Many advanced users use password managers, for me it's a one point of failure and I don't think you should have your passwords stored on an online machine even if well encrypted because malware can easily get your main password for this managers with a simple keylogger or with more advanced techniques for the inputs that are meant to combat keyloggers like random virtual keyboard etc.

Modern password managers use the same level cryptography as bitcoin.  You share equal risk keeping your wallet.dat on an online machine.  :/

I am storing my passwords on an encrypted drive that is never connected to a machine that goes online, I use dedicated old laptop that will never see Internet for accessing it.
So when I forget any of my passwords, I can look it up on this encrypted drive, that's 1 password you have to remember as I find writing down passwords a very bad practice.

Your encrypted drive can be stolen or destroyed.   

[anarkiboy]

Modern password managers use the same level cryptography as bitcoin.  You share equal risk keeping your wallet.dat on an online machine.  :/

That risk is too high and no one in the right mind is keeping main wallet.dat on a hot machine.

Your encrypted drive can be stolen or destroyed.  

So what ? it's encrypted, you can have multiple encrypted drives as backups.

I feel like I'm talking to 5 year olds, with almost every post read on this forum I feel more stupid.
It's clear to me Bitcoin has attracted too many people who have absolutely no knowledge about computers.
That's why I'm saying goodbye to you all.
Cheers!  

PS. Good luck using hot machine and third-party apps for your passwords 

[NotATether]

So my suggestion is, buy old used laptop - be sure it's offline (no hidden sim cards installed etc), fully encrypt the drive and use it for storing your passwords.

That works until your computer hardware short-circuits and makes the drive unreadable.

I'd rather not lose access to all of my passwords that way again. Happened several years ago to me.

[asayoyaasa]

Many advanced users use password managers, for me it's a one point of failure and I don't think you should have your passwords stored on an online machine even if well encrypted because malware can easily get your main password for this managers with a simple keylogger or with more advanced techniques for the inputs that are meant to combat keyloggers like random virtual keyboard etc.

If I'm not careful enough, malware could be an issue, but I can confidently say that my machine will not get infected easily . I don't install random or cracked apps, and I use uBlock Origin to block malicious links.

that's 1 password you have to remember as I find writing down passwords a very bad practice.

The trick for me is to use several languages to make it harder for brute force attacks, but still easy for you to remember. For example: 'Ngentot-Sianjing-FireFighter-Jet.' This would take 1,000 centuries to crack if the hacker doesn't have a list of words that we might use.