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The take-anywhere Password Manager

Published: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:02:12 GMT

Recently, there has been a spate of websites being hacked and passwords being exposed. Although I do use unique passwords on all sites they all followed a rule which meant that, if one password was exposed, it wouldn’t take a genius to work out the others.
I know that a lot of people use the same password for multiple online accounts. And who can blame them, I have found I have 59 different accounts (that I know of!) – who can remember that many unique passwords?

I decided it was time to come up with a better system. I wasn’t interested storing the passwords on my computer as I wouldn’t have access to them on my phone, or at work, or if I was using a friend’s computer.
I considered writing them down and carrying them in my wallet as has been suggested previously by Bruce Schneier, but I didn’t want to face the mad dash to change my passwords if I ever lost my wallet.
I came up with a system which will give you a secure(?) password for every site, but it has drawbacks. I may post the method later. I did some research and found that it is possible to use a password manager and share the database via Dropbox which makes it available on all your computers and on your mobile phone. Problem solved!
Here are the steps you will need to follow to set it up for yourself.

If you’ve found this useful, please sign up to Dropbox using my link so we both get some extra free space! Thanks!

Originally published on my blog at www.planetmediocrity.com

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