Password managers? Crowdsourcing the wisdom of DW/LJ.

[raincitygirl]

So, password managers? I keep reading news articles about how they’re a good thing, and a LOT safer than writing all your passwords down. I write them down in code, but I have no illusions my code is uncrackable. So I should probably get one.

Which is the best? And are all the journalists right that password managers are actually safe? Because it seems counter-intuitive to put all your passwords in one place and then hope that one place doesn’t get hacked.

Comments

[madripoor_rose]

I do both? But can't rec one since the password manager is actually one from my local internet provider/tech support that they put on last time my computer went kablooey.

It does make things faster, just having passwords autofill. But I keep a written list because I know I'm going to forget some of them if I never have to type them in by hand any more. Having a home desktop computer, I keep the list out of plain sight but the logic there is that if someone's in my house going through stuff....I got bigger problems.

[raincitygirl]

Yeah, bigger problems indeed. Thanks!