Debate: Is a password manager safer than writing passwords down in a notebook?

Last month my cousin had his LastPass vault leaked, but 3 years ago my neighbor's house got broken into and the thief found his sticky note with all passwords under the keyboard, so which method is actually less risky in real life?

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perry.evan26d ago

Paper notebooks don't get hacked from 800 miles away.

lindaowens26d ago

Also your cat can't accidentally wipe out your entire notebook by sneezing on the wrong button. Technology is great until a spilled coffee is a catastrophe.

riveradams16d ago

Man, I actually heard a security guy on a podcast say something that changed my mind on this. He pointed out that a notebook is only as vulnerable as your physical space, but password managers have a single point of failure with the master password. If that one password gets cracked or you get phished, everything goes at once. A notebook thief has to physically find the book and know what it is.