Do you ever clean out your online footprints?

I don't remember ever doing that. None of the accounts I use to share text is associated with my real life identity anyway.

Why is all this concern to you? If you don't post or react to illegal/morally illegal things what can happen to you? If you come from countries with a particular situation it's a different story...

I have a number of email accounts, I may get rid of some to simplify. Too many passwords to remember and keep up logging into.


Deleting it doesnt really get rid of anything. Even if it becomes gone from servers and backup servers often some data has already been sold off elsewhere so you have to go after data brokers to prevent more of that but what has already been sold is already unreachable in many cases.

Two issues with that. One password managers are security risks because they can be hacked, it increases your attack surface. Other issue is if you rent typing in your passwords you are even more likely to forget them so if there is data corruption or you just have the computer crash and burn if you didnt do enough backups you are screwed. The best password manager is pen and paper since more likely a cyberbreech than a home break-in, plus you can write it in a simple replacement alphabet in a really small writing or something which most people these days would not even notice or be able to crack how to read it. Also memory isnt the issue just how most email services delete your stuff if you dont log in ever py few months.

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The only way your password manager is going to get hacked is if your computer is already infected. In that case the attacker will just take your browser cookies or keylog you and get access to your accounts. I don't remember my passwords in the first place. Just have automatic backups, the database is encrypted so it should be fine.

>replacement alphabet

Great idea, Substitution cipher > AES-256

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You can directly access computers without any malware sometimes depending on what kind of vulnerabilities exist at any given moment for your system. Keylogging is old news, these days AI can tell your keystrokes by the sound your keyboard makes or reproduce images on screen through the sounds the monitor makes or if a home has a smart meter they can potentially analyze tiny power fluctuations, so a vulnerable device does not even have to be the computer but your phone or someone else's or the home itself. I mean you can do what you want but i am explaining why I dont like using password managers. Yes encryption is there in storage but even then.
https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/dom-based-extension-clickjacking.html

It is a mixed bag it has pros and cons. Main pro is you can make insanely long very complex secure passwords reducing risk of brute forcing attacks and reduce risks of data breeches.

You cant hack a piece of paper is the point. Youd only need to worry if you had someone physically access your home. I dont generally write passwords just saying some people do and it ironically works out for many so i mentioned it as an option.