Interesting Roger, because they didn't force me to change my password.
If I thought my password was strong there was something you could click
on and get an e-mail with a verification link which you then clicked and
everything worked again without changing anything. They used the e-mail
route as a check that you were you.
I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand if you are locked out,
which it appears a lot of folks were, for whatever reason (it appears
user screw up was a major one), you were in real trouble. However, as a
home user only, I used the export facility some time ago to make an
electronic, then paper copy of the entire password file - URL's,
passwords, comments, everything. For some reason the Print Tool doesn't
work. I know that's a no - no, but I have a secure location at home
where I can store the paper and I feel it's a good back up in case I'm
"not here" if you get my drift. My next in line knows where all the
important stuff is located and this is with it.
H Davis
On 5/8/2011 8:17 PM, RogerX19 wrote:
>
> The fact that LastPass thinks they may have gotten hacked only proves
> that it could happen to anybody.
>
> What LastPass did about it is more telling than the fact that they may
> have gotten hacked.
>
> I feel, as they do, that they overreacted.
>
> In my case, I had a very strong password, but they made me change it
> to another one.
>
> After reading one of their latest reports on what danger someone like
> me was in (interview for PC World here: http://bit.ly/mk1I8a), I wish
> they had just given me the option to change my password, or not.
>
> I would not have.
>
> As for their motto: "The last password you'll ever have to remember!",
> now I have to remember a new one.
>
> rogerX
>
> --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:simplycomputers2%40yahoogroups.com>, "Bill" <billaycock@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I am studying the option of using a password manager, and I want the
> input of this group. I want reports of experience AND opinion.
> >
> > I have read reviews of both LastPass and Keepass, and snippets of
> comments on several others. Keepass is free, stores a database within
> the users control, got good reviews and has a moderately complex
> interface; Lastpass uses an off-line storage (Recently compromised),
> got good reviews and is reported to be simple to use.
> >
> > Several of the more respected reviews got a pass from me, because,
> (with obvious bias) they reported only on programs they were dealers for.
> >
> > I am not committed to any, and not even to doing this. However, the
> balance between security and memory is tipping to the "HELP!" side
> (after all, I AM 84)and I am starting here.
> >
> > Help!--Bill--W4BSG
> >
>
>
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