I’m pretty sure the subject of password managers has cropped up before but I did a site search and couldn’t find anything
I watched the BBC online item from last week, mainly because I had received a similar scam message myself. It quoted my password from my old tescomail account, the one I used to access The Afterword until about April of this year. Since tescomail ceased a few months ago I wasn’t too bothered, but still intrigued as how someone got to know my password. The BBC article alerted me to the Have I been pwned? website from which I could see that, between them, my 2 former tesco.net addresses were breached 6 times. It says my new address hasn’t been breached, but I guess it’s only a matter of time. The BBC article recommends using a password manager, which common sense would tell me is the way to go. Can anyone recommend one?
I use 1Password.
You need to remember one big feck off phrase as your ‘password’ and it stores all your others. It’ll generate random ones for your various accounts, and it’ll sit as an app on your phone and a plug in to Chrome.
The free version might well serve you enough.
I use Dashlane, not had any problems with it and it can store personal information, payment cards and online receipts as well as passwords. It will also generate complex passwords as well as letting you use your own and informs you regarding the strength of each password.
Another vote for Dashlane. So much better than Lastpass
I use aWallet Cloud which is fine. It doesn’t generate passwords but I don’t need it to as I have my own method. They are backed up to the cloud too which is important.
Another 1Password user here. It runs on all my computers (home and work) and iPhone / ipad and syncs seamlessly between them.
I’m not yet using a password manager but have been reading up a bit on them with a view to getting one. I was thinking of getting LastPass but some of their browser plugins are reported to be a bit ropey, particularly the one for Firefox. To be avoided then, I reckon.
BitWarden has been recommended. Anyone else heard of this one?
1Password is what I use. The old stand alone version that they try and hide so you sign up for the newer subscription model.
Don’t really like subscriptions. They’ll five quid a month you to death.
ivan: Never seen a free version???
I’ve used PasswdSafe by Jeff Harris since I got an Android 8 or 9 years ago – I like it because I can leave the encrypted database in Dropbox and access it from either a Windows application or the Android App. It’s free and easy to use.
Password tip…. I have 3 different ‘seed ‘ passwords. Lets say password one is ‘afterword’, that will never be written down anywhere. In my password manager I would put ‘Passwone03’ which would translate to ‘Afterword03’, ‘passwone’ would mean ‘afterword’. All I need to do is to remember three words (plus the password for the database) and I never need to write down any actual password so even if the database is compromised, nobody sees any of my real passwords.