+1 for lastPass. They do an excellent job of managing passwords, including functionality for sharing passwords with others which is pretty cool.
BTW: LastPass has a new hack to provide passwords to apps and browsers on Android phones via accessibility functionality, unfortunately not available on the IOS devices. —joshua On Apr 13, 2014, at 7:21 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > BTW: None of the pw mgrs deal with "apps", i.e. those stupid "I dont wanna be > a web page" things that infest our phones. > > So if you have a login relating to an app, LastPass, 1Password etc will only > be a nice cut/paste alternative for you. > > BTW: I'm curious how many of us use a pw mgr and their generated passwords. > I always feel a bit reluctant to give up control of my passwords to an > app/extension. On the other hand it sure is secure and unique per site. > > OTOH: I *really* want Google's authentication 2-factor app to be used by > other sites so that 2 factor can be managed by a single PIN generator. My > bank still uses a dongle, alas. Not sure about recent 2-factor use .. > Dropbox, for example has it I think. I can just see it now: 50 2-factor PIN > generators. Sigh. > > -- Owen > > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Gary Schiltz <[email protected]> > wrote: > There are quite a few. I did a quick survey and quite a bit of reading about > six months ago, and in the end decided on LastPass. If you don’t care about > mobile devices (phones, tablets), then the free version works great. I use it > on all my computers, as well as a an iPhone and iPad, so I paid for the > premium version, which still only costs $12 per year. Your heavily encrypted > “vault” (store of passwords) is stored on their servers, but you password is > not (they all work more or less the same way). > > Gary > > On Apr 13, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Nick Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I listen to a techguru on Saturday night when I am cooking dinner. In the > > light of the recent security gaff (bleeding heart? Or whatever it was.) > > he advised that it was now time for all of us to get LastPass? Or something > > like it. What do you wise people advise for us Former English Majors. > > > > N > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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