Posts made by magictiger1983

@wolflingdaddy Awoo! Sorry, saw wolf in the name and couldn't help myself.

Autofill is disabled by default as a security measure. You can turn it on in the Bitwarden settings, but I prefer to right-click on the form field and select Bitwarden from the pop-up, go to autofill, then pick the account you want to use. I have multiple logins for things, especially emails like Gmail, so not autofilling by default saves me from having to remove the wrong login.

Wrong logins aren't the only reason to not use autofill. If you visit a malicious website, they can use code on the page to load the login page for a site, then monitor what your browser puts into that login field. They don't even have to show you that they're doing this. It lets a bad guy steal your username and password and you would never know until you lose access to your account. You may have noticed some sites changing to a two-page login process where you enter your username on the first one, then your password on the second. That helps combat this type of thing. Security is a balance between safety and convenience, so it's up to you whether or not to turn on autofill. I just want to make sure you know the risks. I hope this helps!

@akeamazan: Exactly this. If anyone else comes across this and isn't sure, Bitwarden is trusted by cybersecurity professionals. Many of us urge our friends and family to use it when they ask for a recommendation. It allows you to customize the number of iterations through the encryption algorithm it uses. More is better. When Lastpass got hit, we discovered that old defaults only ran through the algorithm once, and Lastpass never automatically increased that. I did not run into that with Bitwarden. I've used it for many years myself and my wallet had the most commonly accepted minimum iterations. I do recommend increasing from the minimum since in a situation like this, it's not about being uncrackable, it's about being harder to crack than somebody else.