On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Barry MacKichan
barry.mackic...@mackichan.com wrote:
Since I use a password manager (1Password) there is very little cost in
keeping a 20-character password (which I never type anyway) even for those
sites with 2-factor authentication.
Doesn't this make
I was always worried about that before I started LastPass, so I had already
turned off the feature of saving passwords in my browsers, and cleared out
already saved ones. That left me with having to remember passwords or writing
them down somewhere, or equally bad, storing them in a file
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Robert Holmes rob...@robertholmes.orgwrote:
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I must admit, this is the one issue that has kept me from adopting
1Password, LastPass etc. I'm lazy and I just know that at some point I
would hit the Save this password? button when prompted by my browser
I'm not grokking something then... I thought Barry's setup was automatic,
which is why he never had to enter his 20 character password?
On Apr 19, 2014 4:26 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Robert Holmes rob...@robertholmes.orgwrote:
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I must
The pw manager extensions (1password, lastpass etc) require a master
password to open them, the one password that rules them all.
Once open, the pw manager has a list of sites. You click on the one you
want. It goes to the appropriate URL and fills in the required fields to
log you into that
I *do* have to enter the master password for 1Password. From then on,
for all my accounts, it is automatic or, at the worst, copy and paste.
—Barry
On 19 Apr 2014, at 14:20, Owen Densmore wrote:
The pw manager extensions (1password, lastpass etc) require a master
password to open them, the
At least with LastPass (and presumably with 1Password as well), there's an
option to save the master password in the browser extension so you don't have
to type it in when you open the browser. That obviously reduces the security
of it tremendously, but is a risk largely determined by the
