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I listen to a techguru on Saturday night when I am cooking dinner. In the light of the recent security gaff (bleeding heart? Or whatever it was.) he advised that it was now time for all of us to get LastPass? Or something like it. What do you wise people advise for us Former English Majors. N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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There are quite a few. I did a quick survey and quite a bit of reading about six months ago, and in the end decided on LastPass. If you don’t care about mobile devices (phones, tablets), then the free version works great. I use it on all my computers, as well as a an iPhone and iPad, so I paid for the premium version, which still only costs $12 per year. Your heavily encrypted “vault” (store of passwords) is stored on their servers, but you password is not (they all work more or less the same way).
Gary On Apr 13, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote: > I listen to a techguru on Saturday night when I am cooking dinner. In the light of the recent security gaff (bleeding heart? Or whatever it was.) he advised that it was now time for all of us to get LastPass? Or something like it. What do you wise people advise for us Former English Majors. > > N ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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BTW: None of the pw mgrs deal with "apps", i.e. those stupid "I dont wanna be a web page" things that infest our phones.
So if you have a login relating to an app, LastPass, 1Password etc will only be a nice cut/paste alternative for you.
BTW: I'm curious how many of us use a pw mgr and their generated passwords. I always feel a bit reluctant to give up control of my passwords to an app/extension. On the other hand it sure is secure and unique per site.
OTOH: I *really* want Google's authentication 2-factor app to be used by other sites so that 2 factor can be managed by a single PIN generator. My bank still uses a dongle, alas. Not sure about recent 2-factor use .. Dropbox, for example has it I think. I can just see it now: 50 2-factor PIN generators. Sigh.
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Gary Schiltz <[hidden email]> wrote: There are quite a few. I did a quick survey and quite a bit of reading about six months ago, and in the end decided on LastPass. If you don’t care about mobile devices (phones, tablets), then the free version works great. I use it on all my computers, as well as a an iPhone and iPad, so I paid for the premium version, which still only costs $12 per year. Your heavily encrypted “vault” (store of passwords) is stored on their servers, but you password is not (they all work more or less the same way). ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 07:21:10PM -0600, Owen Densmore wrote:
> > BTW: I'm curious how many of us use a pw mgr and their generated passwords. > I always feel a bit reluctant to give up control of my passwords to an > app/extension. On the other hand it sure is secure and unique per site. > I've bought into the LastPass thing, but only have lastpass installed on my main browser on my laptop. I haven't bothered to enable it on my mobile phone, as I don't tend to log into stuff much there, and when I do, I usually have my laptop handy. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [hidden email] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
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+1 for lastPass. They do an excellent job of managing passwords, including functionality for sharing passwords with others which is pretty cool. BTW: LastPass has a new hack to provide passwords to apps and browsers on Android phones via accessibility functionality, unfortunately not available on the IOS devices. —joshua On Apr 13, 2014, at 7:21 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Yup, I'm with Josh. LastPass has and is working well for me on my desktop, tablet and phone. -tj========================================== Tom Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) Twitter: jtjohnson On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Joshua Thorp <[hidden email]> wrote:
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