Do you have a system or tool to manage your passwords?

Do you have a system or tool to manage your passwords? I didn’t until about a month ago. I was prompted because an old WordPress blog of mine got hacked. And then sent nearly everyone on my email list a bogus blog with a link to a unsavoury site which likely had a link to a virus. I am sorry if you got caught up in that.

Since then, I have tried a couple of tools and discovered Dashlane after reading one of my favourite Tech Bloggers, David Pogue.  Here is the first few paragraphs of his post:

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“If you want to avoid having your identity stolen, use long passwords that contain digits, punctuation and no recognizable words. Make up a different password for every Web site. And change all of your passwords every 30 days.”  

Have these security pundits ever listened to themselves?

That advice is clearly unfollowable. I currently have account names and passwords for 87 Web sites (banks, airlines, blogs, shopping, e-mail, Facebook, Twitter). How is anyone — even a security professional — supposed to memorize 87 long, complex password strings, let alone remember which goes with which Web site?

So most people use the same password over and over again, and live with the guilt.

Does that sound like you, well it sure sounded like me until I discovered Dashlane!

This is the last paragraph in his post:

Still, complaining more than briefly about Dashlane’s drawbacks is like grumbling about the taxes when you win the lottery. It saves you infinite time and hassle, it’s (mostly) free, and it belongs on your computer and phone this very day.

You can read the rest of his review here

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Today, Dashlane announced its new iPad app to supplement the existing iPhone app.  And with the announcement, Dashlane is offering its syncing service, normally a $20 a year subscription, for free for the next 7 days so that you can try it out.

Let me say, once you have done some work to set it up, which took me about an hour, your password on all of your devices are synced.  Everywhere you go and on every device you use, your passwords are secure.  You have to only remember the single master password to enter the app.  Find out more about Dashlane here