Comments on: How to force your Users into bad Password Management http://www.fogel.ca/2009/02/23/how-to-force-your-users-into-bad-password-management/ soapbox and search engine spam Mon, 30 May 2011 18:56:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: DJFelix http://www.fogel.ca/2009/02/23/how-to-force-your-users-into-bad-password-management/comment-page-1/#comment-11844 DJFelix Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:39:12 +0000 http://blog.fogel.ca/?p=428#comment-11844 1Password from Agile Solutions is my savior! It integrates directly into Firefox and Safari (including Safari 4 beta) and has an iPhone app. It has a strong password generator, stores secure notes, wallet items (credit cards, etc). Everything is super encrypted on both the Mac and the iPhone. I'm tracking over 500 passwords in 1Password right now. I'm a bit paranoid, so I have unique strong passwords for nearly every site I use. I've all but eliminated my common password from every site I interact with. For financial sites, I use ridiculously complex passwords that I simply can't remember. Since 1Password integrates directly into my browser, as long as I remember my 1Password access password, I can get into anything quickly and easily. Their new keystore format is also Dropbox compatible, so all of my machines sync automagically. When I was using Linux & Windows as my main desktops I used KeepassX, but it didn't integrate with Firefox, so it was a huge pain. I kept the keystore on a USB flash drive that I had to keep backed up, and would occasionally lose a couple passwords when a flash drive would die because I'm lazy and would forget to backup my flash drive. Now I don't worry about it ... Dropbox keeps my machines synchronized and Time Machine keeps it all backed up. It's a beautiful thing. 1Password from Agile Solutions is my savior! It integrates directly into Firefox and Safari (including Safari 4 beta) and has an iPhone app. It has a strong password generator, stores secure notes, wallet items (credit cards, etc). Everything is super encrypted on both the Mac and the iPhone. I’m tracking over 500 passwords in 1Password right now. I’m a bit paranoid, so I have unique strong passwords for nearly every site I use. I’ve all but eliminated my common password from every site I interact with.

For financial sites, I use ridiculously complex passwords that I simply can’t remember. Since 1Password integrates directly into my browser, as long as I remember my 1Password access password, I can get into anything quickly and easily. Their new keystore format is also Dropbox compatible, so all of my machines sync automagically.

When I was using Linux & Windows as my main desktops I used KeepassX, but it didn’t integrate with Firefox, so it was a huge pain. I kept the keystore on a USB flash drive that I had to keep backed up, and would occasionally lose a couple passwords when a flash drive would die because I’m lazy and would forget to backup my flash drive. Now I don’t worry about it … Dropbox keeps my machines synchronized and Time Machine keeps it all backed up. It’s a beautiful thing.

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