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Dropbox Loophole to Close

+1 for Lastpass, who seem to own xmarks. But if my passwords are already in Lastpass, I have my bookmarks there already. I can also store cards, membership info, wifi keys and loads more.
 
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Mike0001 said:
+1 for Lastpass, who seem to own xmarks. But if my passwords are already in Lastpass, I have my bookmarks there already. I can also store cards, membership info, wifi keys and loads more.
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Yes I have used Xmarks for years, and LastPass for that matter, long before they were part of the same company. I find it very convenient.
 
Mike0001 said:
+1 for Lastpass, who seem to own xmarks. But if my passwords are already in Lastpass, I have my bookmarks there already. I can also store cards, membership info, wifi keys and loads more.
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Yup, I have both, and like them.

One advantage that Xmarks has, for the bookmarking side, is that it integrates directly into your browser's existing bookmarks feature. I use it with both Firefox and Chrome, using the same Xmarks backing store, and despite those browsers having very different bookmark UIs, it all works perfectly.

Also, if you set LP to lock itself after a short timeout, as I do, you would have to unlock it every time you wanted to find a bookmark, which I do a lot more often than needing a password.

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oh, and if you have both, you can get a discount on the combined price.
 
Might as well have all your passwords written down on a bit of paper next to your computer then?
 
I never use online password keepers, except for the 'remembered' logins for sites like this. They are obviously going to be a big, shiny target for hackers, and I think one did report an incident recently.
I use keepass which is synced around my devices by a different system. Maybe not as convenient as browser integrated jobs, but as I only need to get a password a few times a week it's not a problem. Bookmarks are in Chrome which syncs them around - yes, Google knows where I've been and thus keeps serving ads for things I've already bought ... sad :( :rolleyes:
 
Does that to me too. I wonder why they think that you need another of what you have just bought. Related I can understand, but .....
 
I keep passwords in my head and in an encrypted file on my PC. My homepage is now hosted on some web space I have access to.
 
I have all my banking/PIN details in my head. As much as I trust LastPass, the thought of a 'hack' is something I consider a probability rather than a possibility. Yes I know you are thinking why use a password manager at all, but it's just a balance of risk.
 
Wallace said:
I have all my banking/PIN details in my head. As much as I trust LastPass, the thought of a 'hack' is something I consider a probability rather than a possibility. Yes I know you are thinking why use a password manager at all, but it's just a balance of risk.
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The passwords Lastpass generates are far more complex than anything I could remember myself. I keep Lastpass unlocked by choice.

I tried keepass for a year but it was unreliable, almost lost all my data several times, and didn't integrate well with all my toys. I returned to Lastpass because there was no real alternative.
 
As long as a password is sufficiently complex not to be in a dictionary attack list, any further complexity is irrelevant. In practice, that means choosing a mentally-sustainable password generator that produces passwords that pass web sites' "password acceptable" tests.
 
Anyone tried RoboForm? That's what I use and would appreciate any comments from others on my choice.
 
I originally got put off by the annual price, but it's comparable to Lastpass now.
 
MikeSh said:
Strange. I've been using it for years and never had a glitch. (Oops, probably shouldn't have said that :oops: )
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So where do you keep its database? It has to be kept on some internet site, else you can't share the passwords. But on a cloud drive, I found too often that it was corrupted, possibly by not being closed correctly. Also, when it came to my wife using it, the free tools to access it were missing and the interface on mobiles was clunky. I really wanted to like it, but ended up hating it.
 
The database is on the computer and each device as standalone systems. When changed it gets backed-up and synced between them by a separate system, similar to Dropbox, but that doesn't happen if it is just opened to get a password, only if something is added or changed.
I've no idea what the free tools you mention are, AFAIC it's just an app/program, which is entirely free anyway. Are we talking about the same thing?
Yes, it is a bit less elegant on mobiles, but without drag and drop it's not a bad solution (I think it's quite clever in a way). As I said I don't need passwords very often and even less on my mobile devices since I tend to do 'serious' stuff like financial transacting on the big machine. Also I was using it on the PC before I got mobile devices, so I was probably more forgiving of its mobile foibles.

All that said, if you want passwords synced across devices and don't have/want a third party sync system then keepass probably isn't the right solution.
 
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The ios support is what is missing, no free apps I could find, ones that worked with a cloud database anyway, and you can't try the paid ones to check if they work, like you can on android. Our use is now mainly mobile, so our needs differ.
 
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Mike0001 said:
The ios support is what is missing, no free apps I could find, ones that worked with a cloud database anyway, and you can't try the paid ones to check if they work, like you can on android. Our use is now mainly mobile, so our needs differ.
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This is mostly talking about vaults in general I presume, as keepass is free. (I don't know about IOS support, but as it's a free, open source software I guess it only supports what someone builds for; unless Apple block such things on principle.)

As I said in post #27 I wouldn't trust my passwords to a cloud system anyway. My database is in the cloud, but not in an obviously targetable location and effectively behind two layers of security.
 
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