First post in the lounge this year!
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Hi All, Happy New 'Thing', I read on yesterdays Email about the Norton password manager being hit. Ok I got into a heated discussion with a friend about them, All your things in one place to open everything? see a problem, I do, the old single point of failure. The same people who used to bitch as I had passwords on post it notes, encrypted (well, hand written) used Norton and another password manger I can't remember (LastPass? rings a bell), the whole thing seemed a bad idea to me. Opions Please! ;)
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Hi All, Happy New 'Thing', I read on yesterdays Email about the Norton password manager being hit. Ok I got into a heated discussion with a friend about them, All your things in one place to open everything? see a problem, I do, the old single point of failure. The same people who used to bitch as I had passwords on post it notes, encrypted (well, hand written) used Norton and another password manger I can't remember (LastPass? rings a bell), the whole thing seemed a bad idea to me. Opions Please! ;)
[KeePass Password Safe](https://keepass.info) - worth donating to, but not necessary. Keep everything local and easy.
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[KeePass Password Safe](https://keepass.info) - worth donating to, but not necessary. Keep everything local and easy.
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I too would recommend it. I have used it for years and I have had no problems.
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[KeePass Password Safe](https://keepass.info) - worth donating to, but not necessary. Keep everything local and easy.
Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++ | Wordle solver
Keeps everything local, do you install it on your machine and then have a file encryted for the passwords? So only one location by default?
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Keeps everything local, do you install it on your machine and then have a file encryted for the passwords? So only one location by default?
You can do that, or you can put the password file on google drive or OneDrive and access that from anywhere. As long as you have a secure master password on that file no one else can get in, but placing it on an unprotected OneDrive or other file share does allow anyone with access to try to brute force it.
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You can do that, or you can put the password file on google drive or OneDrive and access that from anywhere. As long as you have a secure master password on that file no one else can get in, but placing it on an unprotected OneDrive or other file share does allow anyone with access to try to brute force it.
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It means that if your password file is protected by the password 'pa$$word1' and other people can find the file in the wild you will find out what that means.
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Hi All, Happy New 'Thing', I read on yesterdays Email about the Norton password manager being hit. Ok I got into a heated discussion with a friend about them, All your things in one place to open everything? see a problem, I do, the old single point of failure. The same people who used to bitch as I had passwords on post it notes, encrypted (well, hand written) used Norton and another password manger I can't remember (LastPass? rings a bell), the whole thing seemed a bad idea to me. Opions Please! ;)
I've used Keypass for years, and it has only one problem. I sometimes forget to update it, and that comes back to bite me. For instance, I returned from a weekend away to discover my MIG welder had been stolen, so I figured I'd just pull the video from my security cameras. Alas, I can't remember my login details. Quick, of to look in my encrypted password file and find that I neglected to enter that device. Grrrr... Curiously, when I was in the Microsoft Insiders program, and they hosted a technical session in Phoenix (Fancy lunch included), a manager presenting the Win2K Security details told us a little secret. He said, "You know how we always tell you to use different passwords for everything? Who does that? I use only one myself; it's "cantremember." I always got a kick out of that.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I've used Keypass for years, and it has only one problem. I sometimes forget to update it, and that comes back to bite me. For instance, I returned from a weekend away to discover my MIG welder had been stolen, so I figured I'd just pull the video from my security cameras. Alas, I can't remember my login details. Quick, of to look in my encrypted password file and find that I neglected to enter that device. Grrrr... Curiously, when I was in the Microsoft Insiders program, and they hosted a technical session in Phoenix (Fancy lunch included), a manager presenting the Win2K Security details told us a little secret. He said, "You know how we always tell you to use different passwords for everything? Who does that? I use only one myself; it's "cantremember." I always got a kick out of that.
Will Rogers never met me.
One Password to rule them all? Trouble I think...
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One Password to rule them all? Trouble I think...
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One Password to rule them all? Trouble I think...
Perhaps not. I keep the password file on a key fob, which is stored in a safe. The Keepass master password is written and stored in a different safe. Now if I could just remember what those safe combinations were...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Hi All, Happy New 'Thing', I read on yesterdays Email about the Norton password manager being hit. Ok I got into a heated discussion with a friend about them, All your things in one place to open everything? see a problem, I do, the old single point of failure. The same people who used to bitch as I had passwords on post it notes, encrypted (well, hand written) used Norton and another password manger I can't remember (LastPass? rings a bell), the whole thing seemed a bad idea to me. Opions Please! ;)
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Hi All, Happy New 'Thing', I read on yesterdays Email about the Norton password manager being hit. Ok I got into a heated discussion with a friend about them, All your things in one place to open everything? see a problem, I do, the old single point of failure. The same people who used to bitch as I had passwords on post it notes, encrypted (well, hand written) used Norton and another password manger I can't remember (LastPass? rings a bell), the whole thing seemed a bad idea to me. Opions Please! ;)
I used to use my big brain to hold all my contact telephone numbers but fast dial and smart phones ended up removing the need for that. I now use it for passwords instead. I have a unique password for everything and just remember them all in my head. Easy peasy!
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