![]() To be fair to the 1Password developers, I could actually access my 1Password database from the computer via Dropbox. a) It didn’t have 1Password installed & b) It ran Linux. Normally I’d just use 1Password but this wasn’t any computer. I was on a public computer and needed to login to a website. Three days after changing all my passwords though, I hit a roadblock. 1Password is an excellent piece of software and is incredibly simple to use. After updating all my passwords in 1Password, everything was fine for a few days. Now that I was using impossible to remember passwords, a password manager was no longer a convenience, it was a necessity. I’d really been using 1Password, not because I couldn’t remember my passwords, but rather to reduce the number of keystrokes needed when entering a password. In the past, I’d been using 1Password to “manage” my passwords. ![]() ![]() How the hell was I meant to remember them? I used a password manager. 30 characters of random, well, characters. I’ve realised this security flaw and over the past couple of weeks, changed all of my passwords so that they are unique to each website and totally unintelligible to humans. If you got the password to one website, you had it to all of them. Every website had the same password and email and (normally) username. That’s the worst thing you can do in terms of passwords next to having 123456 as your password. In the past, for websites, I’ve had one strong password which would be impossible to guess and then used that on every website (except my bank, which doesn’t allow special characters in a password). I’ve closed my Facebook account, started moving away from Google and begun using far stronger, unique passwords. I’ve become incredibly security and privacy conscious. In the past few weeks I’ve had a bit of an epiphany. Alex J Moving from 1Password To LastPass to 1Password Again
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