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I forgot my master password two days after. I thought I had stored it someplace and my guess the phone shaked after typing the master key and it undid the characters. FML moment. Spent a week resetting passwords. I only set passwords once. We use bitwarden. It was a pretty fuckery.

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This is why I have so far avoided password managers: single point of failure. What if you forget your master password. Or worse - what if your master password is stolen?

You can use this approach http://lukasz-madon.github.io/Password-management/

... or what if you are traveling and your phone and laptop are lost or stolen?

Your bitwarden password manager is hosted and is only stored encrypted on your phone/laptop. So unless the thief knows your master password you should be fine.

I understand that the thief won't have access to my accounts, but now I don't either - correct?

You would still have access to your accounts as the credentials are hosted by BitWarden or by yourself (on a personal server for example).

It depends on whether you have access to the second factor. I have Authy installed on two phones for that reason.

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