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 likelihood of that
computer being taken and used by someone nefarious who can also get past the
password on the computer.
If you don't save the master password, then you do have about as secure a
password system as possible, given that the computer is still connected to the
Internet.
Brent
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From: Owen Densmore <[email protected]>
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Password Change Requests
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 particular site.
-- Owen
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Robert Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
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" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Robert Holmes <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>><snip>
>>>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 and bang,
>>>there goes my security.
>>
>>
>>It doesn't work that way: the pw managers are extensions, thus the browser
>>does not ask to save the super password, the one for 1P, LastPass etc.
>>There's no way for it to be automatic.
>>
>>
>> -- Owen
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