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Technology
Category:
Security
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01621021
Message ID:
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>>>http://betanews.com/2015/06/15/lastpass-hacked-email-addresses-password-reminders-and-more-compromised/
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>>>I've never used any password manager app because I figured if it gets hacked then they got all yer passwords...duh! And looks like that's what's happened here...
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>>I agree with Jos, it is ironic. I use KeePass password manager which stores the database of passwords on my computer (not online). And I dread a chance that someone hacks into my computer, steals the keepass database and then figures the master password. Then I am f-ed. At least this is more secure than a Word document that I used to use for this purpose :).
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>What I've done in the past is keep them all in a text file or word doc - then put that in a .zip file with a really REALLY long password. It's my understanding that right now the only way to hack a .zip file is by brute force - so if you have a long enough password it would take too long to get the password.

I use an encrypted disk partition and store all sensitive stuff on that including in Excel or Word files. Even my Outlook PST files are on that encrypted partition. Also all source codes and other sensitive stuff. I unlock it once on reboot/start-up. If the laptop is reset the encrypted partition is locked and needs to be re-unlocked. If I sleep the laptop it requires a password to unlock. You can even create an encrypted partition within the encrypted partition :)
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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