{"id":2937,"date":"2026-09-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/the-pros-and-cons-of-using-a-password-manager-over-an-authenticator-app\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T00:00:00","slug":"the-pros-and-cons-of-using-a-password-manager-over-an-authenticator-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/the-pros-and-cons-of-using-a-password-manager-over-an-authenticator-app\/","title":{"rendered":"The pros and cons of using a password manager over an authenticator app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no perfect solution, but different authentication methods can work better in some circumstances than others.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/the-pros-and-cons-of-using-a-password-manager-over-an-authenticator-app\/intro-1789411830.jpg\" \/><\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/the-pros-and-cons-of-using-a-password-manager-over-an-authenticator-app\/\">The pros and cons of using a password manager over an authenticator app<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no perfect solution, but different authentication methods can work better in some circumstances than others. Please credit: OBA Blog &raquo; The pros and cons of using a password manager over an authenticator app<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}