If you have multiple sites you access with user names and passwords, you can save yourself a lot of hassle and time while increasing the degree of password security you enjoy by using a password manager.
I’ve written here about how happy I am with RoboForm, the password manager I’ve been using for a year or so. Now Lifehacker recently posted a review of the 5 most popular password managers available. One of them, of course, is RoboForm, but the other 4 options are very solid. KeePass, by the way, is leading a Lifehacker poll of which password manager is everyone’s favorite, as of this writing, with 40% of the vote.
You can read the entire article here.
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September 8th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
There was an interesting article I recently read about “forgot your password?” optoins being the #1 back door to cracking a password protected account.
In short, we are being admonished to use crazy hard passwords with numbers, characters, and random letters…and then being asked for our dog’s name in case we forget our password.
The article said the only way to play it safe is to use secondary passwords, equally complex, for the back up to the main password – too much personal information, like our dog’s name, is available to friends, via MySpace, etc.
Plus it hardly makes sense to have a complex password as the first line of defense then a simple noun, for example, as the “backdoor” password.
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