I am looking for some advise on a good password manager for my windows machine. A free program would be nice but if paying for one is the way to go thats OK.
I use mSecure. Not that anyone's ever tried to hack my passwords, but I've never had any problems with it. They also have a mobile app for it, and I think it can sync both of them.
Learn to memorize, they cant hack your brain yet...
Good luck memorizing a password like "HI2hwtV7WQLZRdurDyPw"
type it enough and it becomes muscle memory. Then you don't need to remember it, as your body will.
"yet" >_>
I use for every site a unique password. I have more than 100 passwords like these in KeyPass.... No, my body wont remember all of them. Not even 10.
I use Lastpass. It's very convenient to have your passwords available for you from anywhere and its browser integration makes browsing less bothersome.
Using one password everywhere is very insecure. Remembering 3-4 of those would be very challenging.
I use one relatively simple password for everything I don't care about and different complex passwords for everything related to finance.
I find password management programs to be a huge waste of money and time. The whole point of passwords is security, and by trusting a software to remember it for you, then you are no more secure than if you posted your passwords on Facebook. I'd make a good password, and have 4 or 5 variants of it, and use those instead. My password for most things maxes out the limit of 60 characters, and has about 15 numbers and various symbols - a strong password is always better than a plethora of weak passwords managed by a software.
In many cases (like this website, of example), no one will benefit from hacking your account so security can be neglected in favor of convenience. Not to mention that password manager can generate you unique strong passwords for every website which is infinitely more secure than using one password everywhere.
All my passwords are like that and yes I remember them, I think i have a touch of aspergers though so maybe that explains it...
I use password minder.
really.
i have all my passwords written down in a tiny moleskine notebook. It's kept within a large safe in my home. The notebook is not connected to anything, so nobody can connect to it.
when I need to travel somewhere, I have an encrypted USB stick that has a .txt document with all my passwords if I happen to forget any while I'm not near my password minder. If I would ever happen to lose the stick out there, I'll probably have enough time to change my important account passwords by the time someone decrypts the information.
password managers have been around for a long time, but I've never bought into them. The best defense from digital attacks is to keep it analog.
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