Not that other means of accessing the passwords aren’t worth considering, but in the real world, it takes a lot more for someone to actually coerce your password from you than to use unencrypted storage.
I generally like xkcd, but this is a harmful trivialization of the value of encryption. In the real world, anything that isn’t encrypted is negligent as hell. There’s no valid reason not to do it, with maybe the exception of a thumb drive you’re sharing across a computers you don’t control and are clearly aware is not secure.
Not that other means of accessing the passwords aren’t worth considering, but in the real world, it takes a lot more for someone to actually coerce your password from you than to use unencrypted storage.
I generally like xkcd, but this is a harmful trivialization of the value of encryption. In the real world, anything that isn’t encrypted is negligent as hell. There’s no valid reason not to do it, with maybe the exception of a thumb drive you’re sharing across a computers you don’t control and are clearly aware is not secure.