![]() Still, I guess it's much better than finding people sticking 'password post its' on screens (which generally fall off and get hoovered up by the cleaner) or updating a file called ‘Passwords.xls’ on a shared network drive. For us our only option with Roboform was to use it to securely email encrypted password data around, but we found this messy - especially when passwords change, as they have to by our security policies. If you are a consumer, or a one person company, this is fine, but as ACC has grown, we have needed to delegate and share responsibilities around, and with shared responsibilities comes shared access to passwords. The Roboform Everywhere version is a great way to sync your passwords between your own PCs, tablets and phones - everyone has multiple devices these days and there is no point having super passwords on you PC if you have to then struggle tapping them in on your tiny phone on screen keyboard. Simply click on the website link in your bookmark and Roboform will ask you for your master password, and then take you right to the website (or websites) in question and log you in. With Roboform, we can set complex passwords, identity information (such as insurance & credit card details) and also store secure notes - and never worry about forgetting them or offending customers even. ![]() The name doesn’t really do the product justice ( "so it just fills in forms?" I remember a customer asking once), Roboform is actually a powerful and extremely secure password management system. Boo! Going RoboĪnd so in order to avoid any further embarrassing episodes, thankfully we discovered Roboform from Sieber Systems as an effective (but not quite so amusing) means of managing our passwords and secure data. After that, we figured we needed to update our policy on generating amusing customer passwords. Awkward! We got the problem resolved in the end, but the customers first action afterwards was to request the password be changed to his own epic creation (which was actually far funnier) about me. I think it took him about five characters in to figure out the rest. Yes on that day, having tried every possible means to get out of jail, fate happened place me in the regrettable position of having to spell out, over the phone to a customer, letter by letter, the amusing password I had created especially 'for' him. Then, one day, thanks to a problem scenario about as likely as all the planets in the solar system lining up in a neat row like you get on ‘our universe’ astrology posters, the fun came back to bite my behind. OK yes, that's a bit naughty, but for me (the way that my brain works anyway) I found this technique a superb way of creating eternally memorable and super secure passwords. In a twisted way I would justify it as being good for me and 'good' for the customer. So for instance, if a customer was a bit 'follically challenged', with a cheeky chuckle perhaps I would tap in B8ldyBr18n or maybe 5l1ckM1ck for passwords (and before you ask yes I just made these up!). Perhaps that's why I tend to get bored easily, and why sometimes I need a bit of fun to help me get through the day? A while ago, one favourite boredom busting pastimes of mine was making up amusingly memorable passwords for customers systems. ![]() Why not just go the whole hog and tell me I am over the top OCD too? Actually, come to think of it, I am rather OCD, and likely because I am probably a bit Autistic. After a long pause, she came up with one: In a recent conversation with my mother (perhaps I was feeling a little down and in need of a bit of a pep talk), she did what all good mothers do and reminded me of all my good points. APPLICATION CENTRIC COMPUTING LTD GDPR STATEMENTīoring passwords are forgettable, amusing ones memorable (but sometimes, regrettable!).You have to rely on their security standards being used properly. The problem though? An entity can ALWAYS (until the end of time) see what websites you have accounts at because that encrypted vault data is a snapshot of when it was stolen.ġPW is not open source. That way at least an entity won't have potential access to websites you have accounts with. ![]() Needless to say, if you're a Lastpass member you need to change every password on every website that is attached to your vault. Also problematic is that LastPass wasn't encrypting web site addresses being stored? How that is possible, I don't know.īut people can acquire the data breach online probably and see where a particular account (email address) had accounts saved at. All they need is a super computer to brute force individual vaults and they can unlock every password of a user. To add insult to injury it looks like the hackers got the entire database of people's vaults. The massive LastPass security hack in 2022 definitely hurt LastPass' reputation.
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