Friday, April 8, 2011

[Simply Computers] Re: password manager ?

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, "Bill" <billaycock@...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Several of the more respected reviews got a pass from me, because, (with obvious bias) they reported only on programs they were dealers for.
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> 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.
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> Help!--Bill--W4BSG
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