RoboForm is an award-winning automated password manager and web form filler with some serious Artificial Intelligence.
FROM MY EMAIL TO MY LUDDITE FRIEND
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Look at roboform2go for your sign up hang up. I use it. One of the few packages I’ve paid money for. I use it to sign up when needed, generate a unique password for the site, and it does all the memorization work. I have a few passwords hat I trust to no one (i.e., banking, my websites, and certain documents) but for the most stuff it handles all the details.
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Passwords have been in use since Julius Caesar. The security principle is a shared secret between you and something else (i.e., website, service, application, platform, whatever). To keep the integrity of that shared secret, you shouldn’t use the same password for different sites. Or, reuse it in any way. Or, generate it by adding a digit to your middle name!
Some “rules of thumb”:
(1) Passwords need to be unguessable.
(2) They need to be long enough prevent someone trying everyone by brute force.
(3) They need to use lots of possibilities (i.e., 26 letters become 52 values if you use upper and lower case).
(4) It can’t be in the dictionary (i.e., or the word in reverse); it’s called a “dictionary attack”.
SO if you have to have a slew of passwords, what do you do?
I suggest using a tool, like ROBOFORM, as your “extended memory”, like I do, for low risk uses. Routine logons are a snap. It will also speed your initial sign up, generate a complex password, and remember the whole thing for you.
For your high risk uses (i.e., financial sites), where a compromise could be a disaster, use your memory. If you have more than 10 high risk uses, then you need to consolidate your uses.
I recommend using a USB THUMB DRIVE with ROBOFORM PASS2GO. It does all the above, but you keep the passwords on it. So the password data is not on the machine that you use! When you’re not using the computer, put the drive in your pocket. So, if your computer gets stolen, then you should have the USB THUMB DRIVE with all the passwords in your pocket.
Losing your notebook is bad. Losing all your passwords is a disaster.
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