Password management is more complex and fraught with dangers than ever. Which service offers the best silver bullet? We turn it over the the Webtech community to decide.
With people having to manage more and more online user accounts and high profile sites like Adobe and Twitter
being attacked and user passwords being compromised, many users are
turning to password management solutions to deal with the unscalable
issue of managing all of their passwords and keeping them secure. The
two most popular password managers are LastPass and 1Password.
These
solutions create highly secure passwords for all of your accounts and
then use software (browser plugins and mobile apps) to manage the entry
of your passwords across various sites and devices. The only thing you
have to do is create one super-secure master password that you can
remember.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both LastPass and 1Password (and there's also an open source alternative called KeePass).
These solutions can increase both security and convenience, but there's
also the issue that if you decide to use one of these services then you
have a single point of failure (your master password) if someone
targets you. Nevertheless, more and more users are opting for these
kinds of solutions and the subject of which one to recommend will
continue to come up.
In typical Webtech
fashion, we're going to call on the wisdom of the crowds to help answer
this question. There are lots of highly-technical brainiacs in the WebTech community and we'd like to call on your valuable
perspectives and experiences to help people make the right choice.
Discuss.
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