Interviewed by CNN on 14/06/2011 19:36, PhillipJones told the world:
That figures. Your not old enough to have problems remembering things.
As you get older you capacity to remember things gets less and less. Not
because of Dementia. But because your brain is constantly bombarded with
pieces of information to learn and remember. The older you get some
information is lost to make room for new. Also memory can be affecetd by
medicines and chemicals you take, legit or not throughout your existence.
Wait another twenty years you'll find out what us older folk are talking
about.
I understand the need, but I just disagree that's a good idea to save
important passwords in your browser's password manager. The problem with
that is:
- Either you set a long timeout for the master password, and the
passwords stay available if you get up for lunch and forget to close the
browser,
- Or you set it short, but keep being annoyed by the browser asking for
your master password for routine, low-security stuff like downloading
mail or visiting forums.
So I save the routine passwords in Seamonkey. WITHOUT a master password.
That's a deliberate choice: it gives me convenience for unimportant stuff.
The important stuff I keep in a SEPARATE high-security password manager.
So the security of my important passwords is not impinged upon by the
convenience of the low-security ones.
And I still have just one master password to remember.
(Yes, I COULD keep my banking passwords and PGP passphrases in KeePass.
It's considered very secure, probably lots more than the Mozilla keyword
manager. I choose not to do so out of paranoia. There's other good
password managers around, such as Roboform. I happen to like KeePass.)
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