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Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords?

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On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:18:37 +0000 (UTC)
Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> My parents had their ebay account hacked last night, and the guy who
> had control of it was buying dodgecoin and litecoin as fast as he
> could.  I'm helping them deal with the situation, and finally
> convinced them not to use the same dictionary word as a password on
> all their accounts.  The incident has caused me to reflect on how I
> can better manage my own passwords.
> 
> Currently, I use a common crappy password on unimportant sites, and
> a serious one for important accounts with a common base that varies
> based on the domain name.  But I'm worried that if a human were to
> recover the plaintext of my password for one site, they may be able
> to figure out my passwords for other sites as well.
> 
> I'm really curious about password managers such as LastPass,
> KeePass, and pass.
> 
> https://lastpass.com/
> http://keepass.info/
> http://www.zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/
> 
> I really like the ability to use ridiculously strong passwords, but
> I'm concerned about limited accessibility to them.  What if I need
> to check my account balance on my phone when I'm out at a store
> somewhere?  What if I'm on someone else's windows machine and can't
> ssh into my server (assuming I use pass) or my browser plugins
> (assuming I use a browser-based utility).  This is the trade-off
> between security and convenience, and finding the right balance is
> difficult.
> 
> For those of you who use password managers, how do you handle these
> situations?  For those of you who don't, what password management
> strategy do you use?


I use DataVault on my Android phone as I have something like 200 unique
passwords.  It works great on a high end phone but also worked well on
Gingerbread.  I chose it because they also sell a Mac OSX app that
allows me to back up my phone and/or synchronize it to my Mac.  I'm not
comfortable with cloud storage of really any type, thinking if they get
my password file they've got it all.

I find Datavault good, but it's expensive as phone apps go - $9 or
something.  Paid apps tend to be better quality in my opinion, as the
understanding of customer/client 'rights' is clearer.

*Somewhere* recently I just saw mention of a *Nix CLI password app that
people seem to like, and for the life of me I can't remember where I
saw it or what the app was, but it seemed interesting to me at the time.

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Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-11 16:18 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-11 17:14 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-11 21:14 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-12 02:49 +0000
        Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-12 04:08 +0000
          Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-12 08:08 +0000
            Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-12 08:26 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-11 17:20 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-03-11 20:24 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-11 20:48 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-11 19:49 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-11 20:49 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-03-11 23:17 +0100
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-12 01:01 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-12 09:43 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-12 21:15 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2014-03-12 08:04 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-12 08:58 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2014-03-12 09:07 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Memnon Anon <memnon+usenet@freeshell.org> - 2014-03-12 11:04 +0000
        Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-12 21:04 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Morten Nygaard Åsnes <mnaasnes@gmail.com> - 2014-03-12 12:46 +0100
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-12 10:16 -0400
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-12 14:21 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-12 16:21 +0000
    Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? David Jones <david.jones@fmail.co.uk> - 2014-03-12 16:43 +0000
      Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-12 17:14 +0000
        Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-13 06:32 +0000
  Re: Ask Usenet: How do you manage your passwords? "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-17 07:41 +0100

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