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I can't even begin to fathom the magnitude of this considering how many people likely use the same login credentials for all of their sites. The problem you ru
by wilschroter 15y ago
I can't even begin to fathom the magnitude of this considering how many people likely use the same login credentials for all of their sites.
The problem you run into is that communicating both the nature of the breach and convincing people to respond accordingly is incredibly hard.
This will continue to happen across many sites. I think after enough of these breaches, though, people will start to think about the protection of their online identities a lot differently, which is good, albeit at a painful cost.
- Florin_Andrei 15y agoThis is a good time to purchase a password-vault app - AND USE IT!
- reginaldo 15y agoNo need to purchase. Just put the "Password Gorilla"[1] binaries for Windows, Linux and Mac on your Dropbox be done with it. [1] https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki/ https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki/
- brown9-2 15y agoKeepass is great, easy, and free.
- notJim 15y ago<3 <3 <3 keepass. It has clients for Linux, Windows and OS X, not to mention many smartphones (stick to the 1.x version for this.) This, along with dropbox makes for an awesome way to keep track of passwords securely.
- technoweenie 15y agoHave you ever entered one of those passwords with a playstation controller?
- Florin_Andrei 15y agoIt doesn't have to use all those funny characters. But the vault at least allows you to use a different password for each site. Which, in this case, might be pretty important.
- jonknee 15y agoWhat password vaults also run on your PS3?
- hachr 15y agoyes, it's up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, X, O, X, O
- Florin_Andrei 15y agoOkay, I see KeePass and Password Gorilla recommended here in the other replies. I use KeePass actually, and I've seen PGorilla. But I'd like something that is integrated with the iPhone - and works with Linux and Windows too. There's an app called Strip that looks pretty good. I'm listening to other suggestions.
- jcnnghm 15y agoI've used LastPass since the Gawker breach. It works with iOS and automatically syncs password databases across all browsers and mobile devices. I've been very happy with it thus far.
- cookiecaper 15y agoI just email and normal encryption methods. It's the simplest thing for me.
- wnoise 15y agoKeepassx is compatible with keepass. You can also run the new version of keepass on mono.