Password safes &c. (was: Dear Linkedin,)

Tyler Haske tyler.haske at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 21:00:14 UTC 2012


KeePass, KeyPassDroid and Dropbox.

I'm sure it will just get simpler as time goes on.

My mom uses a key database just fine.
On Jun 8, 2012 4:49 PM, "Andrew Sullivan" <asullivan at dyn.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 01:30:42PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:
> > PS: when security is hard, people simply don't do it.
>
> I think this is exactly right.
>
> The idea that we are going to train everyone on earth to keep eleventy
> billion distinct passwords in their heads -- or in a "password safe"
> that is either (1) under someone else's control because it's a web
> service or (2) inaccessible half the time because it's on their laptop
> and they're using their phone now and OMG -- is preposterous.  (This
> without mentioning that they also have to remember the username that
> goes with it, which is _also_ variable.)



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