Computers Anyone use an online password manager?

**OnTheWarpath15** · 07-17-2010, 11:51 AM

And if so, who do you use and why?

Looking for recommendations.

TIA.

The Rick · 07-17-2010, 10:10 PM

Lastpass. Hands down, the best.

http://www.lastpass.com

Miles · 07-17-2010, 10:24 PM

irishjayhawk · 07-17-2010, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by The Rick

Lastpass. Hands down, the best.

http://www.lastpass.com

Better than 1password?

**DaFace** · 07-18-2010, 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by The Rick

Lastpass. Hands down, the best.

http://www.lastpass.com

That's what I use. Works great with Chrome. I haven't really used any others though.

kpic · 07-18-2010, 05:27 AM

I have been using Roboform (http://www.roboform.com/) for years, not sure if it is better than others because I never had need to switch.

irishjayhawk · 07-18-2010, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by kpic

I have been using Roboform (http://www.roboform.com/) for years, not sure if it is better than others because I never had need to switch.

Ugh, I used that back in 99-early 00s and I hated it. I loathed it. I put it in the same category as AOL.

**BigRedChief** · 07-18-2010, 08:23 AM

If your computer develops a leak or gets a trojan/bot/keystroker on it you are hosed. Everything is owned by the hacker. Including your online accounts.

For the home user to protect their stuff from others I recommend disk encryption of the whole hard drive. Just make sure you have a way to reset the password within whatever software you use to do the encryption.

If you don't want to encryt the whole hard drive get yourself a software encryption tool lik Mcaffee vault. A 256bit encryption place on your hatd drive. No hacker is going to spend the time to try to break 256bit encryption. Keep all your stuff you want to remain private in the vault.

Just my two cents

WV · 07-18-2010, 08:52 AM

I use password safe at work....it's not online, but I like it alot. I also use Norton's built in password tool, but I don't feel comfortable using it for everything...

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

The Rick · 07-18-2010, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by irishjayhawk

Better than 1password?

Yeah, it's great because you can access it from any PC.

**DaFace** · 07-18-2010, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

If your computer develops a leak or gets a trojan/bot/keystroker on it you are hosed. Everything is owned by the hacker. Including your online accounts.

To some extent, yes. However, the password managers don't let you view passwords or anything, so if you discover you've been compromised, you could still get in and reset everything without having all of your passwords known to the world. Not to mention that a keylogger would actually get more info about you if you're typing passwords in manually, since it would get all of them rather than just your master password.

In addition, LastPass encrypts everything on their server, so it's actually much more secure than basically any other means of saving passwords on your computer (e.g., saving them in the browser, putting them in a document, etc.).

Overall, the best-case scenario is probably not to use anything to save passwords on your computer, but the fact of the matter is, if you get a really nasty trojan hack on your computer, you're hosed either way.

irishjayhawk · 07-18-2010, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by The Rick

Yeah, it's great because you can access it from any PC.

I believe they have a similar deal called my1password or something, which is online based.

That's why I wondered.

**OnTheWarpath15** · 07-18-2010, 09:17 PM

Thanks for the info, guys. Guess I'll just keep doing it the way I'm doing it.

kaplin42 · 07-19-2010, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

If your computer develops a leak or gets a trojan/bot/keystroker on it you are hosed. Everything is owned by the hacker. Including your online accounts.

For the home user to protect their stuff from others I recommend disk encryption of the whole hard drive. Just make sure you have a way to reset the password within whatever software you use to do the encryption.

If you don't want to encryt the whole hard drive get yourself a software encryption tool lik Mcaffee vault. A 256bit encryption place on your hatd drive. No hacker is going to spend the time to try to break 256bit encryption. Keep all your stuff you want to remain private in the vault.

Just my two cents

If you game, or do anything hard drive intensive, encrypting your entire HD is a really bad idea.

If you're a casual user who does email, and hangs out on the net, meh, not so bad.

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