My brain is my password manager. Came free with the OEM.
I've been using eWallet on IOS and Windows for a few years. It's just a password locker. You put in the password and look up it up - or alternatively write it to the clipboard. Does sync across IOS devices and my laptop.
I think I paid 2-4 bucks for it. Gets the job done simply and cheaply.
My brain.. whats left of it.
Password savers or whatever they are called, are.. well not safe and frankly not needed. Browsers with cloud sync do it now days.
I use the password safe in an old Blackberry. I hope it never dies.It works well and generates strong passwords for me.
My brain.. whats left of it.
Password savers or whatever they are called, are.. well not safe and frankly not needed. Browsers with cloud sync do it now days.
I don't use one.
Seems like a bit of a risk to me, but I'm unfamiliar with how they work.
Not sure how it's more secure to leave all your stuff in one place with a single lock than to distribute stuff everywhere with multiple locks.
I use LastPass, completely free. Though to use it on your phone it costs $12/year.
Not a computer guy, but from what I've gathered none of these password managers keep your actual login and secure info on their servers.
As for the "all the eggs in one basket" fear, I exported my info to a text file, encrypted the bloody Jesus out of it, put it on a usb and put that in a safety deposit box along with my hard drive backup. So sure, you can still steal that from me if a)you think I'm that important and b)you're fully prepared to go full Hans Gruber to get it.
I've just gotten Lastpass and put in one login site. I'm attracted to its super low price but the main factor in my decision making would be auto-password changing. The idea of a password manager automatically finding the password changing part of a website would be yuuuge. However, I'm on the site now and I can't seem to find that feature. Where is it?
Not a computer guy, but from what I've gathered none of these password managers keep your actual login and secure info on their servers.
As for the "all the eggs in one basket" fear, I exported my info to a text file, encrypted the bloody Jesus out of it, put it on a usb and put that in a safety deposit box along with my hard drive backup. So sure, you can still steal that from me if a)you think I'm that important and b)you're prepared to go full Hans Gruber to get it.
Try this.
Kind of a pain in the ass if you forget your password.
Well, *I'm* so unimportant I don't even have a safety deposit box.
As far as I'm concerned, there's always going to be some step in the process that's going to be a pain in the ass, and any effort to mitigate that hassle will be a security flaw to some degree.
The safety deposit box is less about being important and more about whether my place gets burglarized or if it burns down.
Why aren't they safe? Or more accurately why are they less safe than writing them on a piece of paper? I have 163 entries in eWallet, about 2/3rds of those are passwords (the rest are account numbers for various things, vehicle registration numbers, insurance policy numbers etc). There is no way I could conceivably remember all of them unless I used the same password everywhere which is a very bad idea. The only alternative would be to write them down and paper is less secure as far as I'm concerned.
Well since you seem to not care about convenience why not just bury it in a box in the middle of the Amazon?
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