I fully agree with you and it's nice to see that someone else is thinking pragmatically and not ending up arguing over three letter agencies.
If your machine with the password manager gets pwned then it's probably game over, and you can do that remotely for a networked device. So at the very least it's reasonable to compare the physical security of a paper notebook and a computer.
Yes you might have encrypted the device but as everyone is so fond of saying 'once you have physical access it's game over anyway', so by that logic the notebook and computer are as secure as one another as they both rely on physical security. Maybe the computer is even less secure as you can attack it over the network!
It's important to plan for disaster recovery though. That's probably a more reasonable fear - something like fire or accidentally spilling coffee over the book would be pretty bad. Maybe a backup copy in a waterproof fire safe would be a 'good enough' solution for priority accounts like email from where you can probably reset/recover all other accounts.
If your machine with the password manager gets pwned then it's probably game over, and you can do that remotely for a networked device. So at the very least it's reasonable to compare the physical security of a paper notebook and a computer.
Yes you might have encrypted the device but as everyone is so fond of saying 'once you have physical access it's game over anyway', so by that logic the notebook and computer are as secure as one another as they both rely on physical security. Maybe the computer is even less secure as you can attack it over the network!
It's important to plan for disaster recovery though. That's probably a more reasonable fear - something like fire or accidentally spilling coffee over the book would be pretty bad. Maybe a backup copy in a waterproof fire safe would be a 'good enough' solution for priority accounts like email from where you can probably reset/recover all other accounts.