On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:53:42 +0100
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 21 Jul 2015 02:40:54 Dale wrote:
This wouldn't help with some of the things you lost but it will
with your passwords at least. For passwords, this will help and
you can use it somewhere else as well since it is portable, sort
of.
https://lastpass.com/
snipped for brevity
First, thanks to everyone who replied to this thread. As usual in this
group, I learned something from every reply.
I've actually been using lastpass for about two years, so I lost a lot
less than I would have otherwise. I had another scary moment, though,
when I couldn't remember my lastpass master password.
After about twenty guesses I remembered that I just recently changed my
lastpass password exactly because of the 'possible' data breach at
lastpass (the security issues Mick mentions below).
I asked lastpass to email me my password hint, which I made vague on
purpose so bad guys would have trouble using it -- and that meant I had
trouble using it too :) But after another ten guesses I finally got
the new password right. Whew...
A better, as in more secure, solution should involve local encryption
and IMHO local air-gapped storage. A USB key will do nicely and you
can have a second USB key stored in your brother's premises, for
disaster recovery scenarios. This is because cloud storage:
a) creates a honey pot which attracts attacks[1] and
b) most of cloud storage is in the US.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#Security_issues
