The great bookmarks synchronization plug-in Xmarks because of lack of funding was planning to close down has now been acquired by LastPass, the password manager that makes web browsing easier and more secure. This is terrific! LastPass is a great company and Xmarks is a great service. I’m currently use a”delicious ” plug-in to manage my bookmarks but now I may move to Xmarks!
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Programmer extraordinaire and Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani and Leo Laporte talk about Lastpass the incredible cloud based password manger. Read More→
The longer your passwords are the harder they will be to crack. How long should they be and what sort of characters should you use? Steve Gibson on
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of Security Now suggest ten characters. Read More→
For the last six months I’ve been using Lastpass a password manager that is truely extraordinary. Lastpass is easy and safe. Lastpass is everywhere you are. It works on PCs, Macs, Linux and other operating system. Read More→
I’m always saying use good passwords. Use upper and lower case letters and numbers. I do all of this but one has to have an algorithm to remember ones passwords. The problem is in order to use the password algorithm it has to be easy. Something you can do in your head. My algorithm is so easy that if you discovered one of my passwords it would be no problem to figure out the rest. An algorithm that you can do in your head must be more difficult and hopefully you have the gray matter to use it or you must try something else.
LastPass is the answer. LastPass generate pseudorandom passwords for you and store them on a secure website. Then LastPass can auto-fill passwords as you need them. It can even log you in automatically. It took me a while but I generated all new passwords for all of my logins, they are all different and they are saved securely on the LastPass site.
