lol, that password is ridiculous. Nobody would be able to guess it with in the next few billion years, but then again they probably wouldn't with an 8 character password either.
> with the pending doom from hackers...and Post-It notes defeat the purpose of passwords
I've always taken umbrage at those two lines of thought together. For the average person (you know, without dedicated enemies), a secure password written on a Post-It note on your monitor is a pretty safe scenario.
Doesn't having a secure password on a Post-It note make it insecure? There are plenty of people near me that would just love to look at my emails.
But from a hacker point of view Lulzsec would not be able to view your Post-It note password (web-cams and mirrors aside).
> Doesn't having a secure password on a Post-It note make it insecure?
Technically.
> There are plenty of people near me that would just love to look at my emails.
I just don't think that's actually true for many people. My parents, for instance. Or people with home offices who don't leave the door open when they have crazy parties—or who put their passwords on a piece of paper stuffed in the middle of a book.
The point is that writing your password down, for most people, is actually good advice.
Okay, so which of the one-password apps is the best?
I keep meaning to start using one, but I don't know which to try. I'm an Apple user all the way (home and office Macs plus an iPhone and iPad) and some sort of sync would be great. Additionally, what are the different models for storage, encryption, and retrieval?
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 34.4 ms ] threadI've always taken umbrage at those two lines of thought together. For the average person (you know, without dedicated enemies), a secure password written on a Post-It note on your monitor is a pretty safe scenario.
Or is Lulzsec peeking in everyone's windowz, too?
Technically.
> There are plenty of people near me that would just love to look at my emails.
I just don't think that's actually true for many people. My parents, for instance. Or people with home offices who don't leave the door open when they have crazy parties—or who put their passwords on a piece of paper stuffed in the middle of a book.
The point is that writing your password down, for most people, is actually good advice.
I keep meaning to start using one, but I don't know which to try. I'm an Apple user all the way (home and office Macs plus an iPhone and iPad) and some sort of sync would be great. Additionally, what are the different models for storage, encryption, and retrieval?