Agreed. Personally, I worry a lot more about someone being able to use social engineering to have one my passwords reset than someone breaking one of my passwords.
-- Cedric -- Cédric On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:33 AM, rakesh mailgroups < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Fabrizio, > > i think you are being unrealistic. > > I'm all for doing due diligence when choosing important software like this > (I use 1Password + dropbox btw) but you need to realise their are NO 100% > guarantees. > > Look what happened to Sony, hackers get hold of government data and post > it. > > What I think you should be asking yourself is, will I be able to get any > money back if I should be hacked? The answer is invariably yes as you are > already part of the minority who understands technology and isn't stupid to > use guessable passwords or the same one across multiple sites. > > As someone pointed out, you have to trust someone somewhere in order to do > anything. LastPass, KeyPass, 1Password all have a lot to lose if their > software is not good enough. Personally, thats good enough for me. They > should have the smart people staying on top of this situation for me. > > Lifes too short, move on. > > Rakesh > > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:27:20 +0100, Casper Bang <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> However, taking the tin-foil hat off for a moment, it's probably safe >>> enough for most people to go with the big players like LastPass etc. >>> >> >> I don't want to scare people, of course. But "it's probably safe enough" >> is what I often think, when I'm particularly annoyed of my manual >> procedure. Then I say: what does enough means? It depends on what you're >> protecting. For many things, it's probably enough: you risk some major >> annoyance in some public forums if some joker spreads some spam, or you >> risk your websites to be defaced. If you have the proper counter-measures >> (e.g. a backup to quickly restore a defaced site, etc...), it's ok. Perhaps >> I could actually use one of the proposed open source solutions for my >> passwords with a low criticality (but I don't see any advantage in just >> having them managed by Opera). >> >> For my banking accounts, not. Once the money has gone, has gone. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. >> "We make Java work. Everywhere." >> http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/**blog <http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog>- >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscribe@** >> googlegroups.com <javaposse%[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >> group/javaposse?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
