Printing records from only one vault

@greenday

Thanks for the reply. Can you tell me a little more about why your relative is trying to print and store a portion of her passwords in her safe deposit box? Once I better understand her need to do this I can advise further.

And I didn't have a good answer for her when she asked how storing her Emergency Kit in the safe deposit box was somehow safer than storing her passwords there in plain text (clearly it's not safer).

It's safer to store, in a safe and secure location, the Emergency Kit rather than a copy of your passwords themselves for a few reasons:

1. If needed, you can always invalidate the Emergency Kit by generating a new Secret Key or choosing a new account password. There's no way to invalidate a page of passwords other than changing each password individually.
2. Anyone with access to the safe, or anyone who breaks into that safe, can use a printed page of passwords without you knowing about it. How would you know if someone secretly accessed your safe and took a picture of your list of passwords? But if someone accesses your 1Password account using the Emergency Kit you'll receive an immediate email notification letting you know about the sign in and letting you deauthorize the device accessing your account.
3. On every update to any of your passwords a new print out has to be generated. This can result in multiple copies that can be hard to keep track of, update, and destroy correctly.

In addition to that, the Emergency Kit grants access to the latest and correct copy of your passwords. A printed page of passwords may be out of date if you've forgotten or made a mistake in updating the print out. Part of security is making sure that you can always access the information and services that are most important in your life.

-Dave