Google and passwords

[swee'pea99]

Swipe left ?

Success! Ta.

Um, It's now asking me to 'permit drawing over other apps'. Do I want to? I don't really understand what it's asking me.

Will it by now have accessed all my passwords currently stored in Google/Chrome, or do I have to add them one by one?

 

[Debade]

I agree with this but I have decided to keep my PW on a thumb drive since leaving them online offers a little less security. I purchased a more secure Data Traveler thumb drive and back them up with another DT thumb drive. I do not save my important PW on my hard drive

My password manager is Keepass which is free and offers most if not all of the features of the online PW managers. It has worked well for the many years I have used it.

The rule of thumb that I follow is the more convenience your PW manager is for you, the easier path for the bad guys to hack.

 

[oldwheels]

I store no passwords on any machine. As another poster said I am the password memory and everything is entered from my memory and box asking to store password not used. I will admit to having the main ones written down just in case but anybody looking for them would have to be very persistent or very lucky as they are remote from any machines and not identifiable.

 

[Milkfloat]

Before you go down the route if a password manager, simply put a decent lock on your phone and enable 2 factor authentication. Not having a phone lock is pretty crazy.

 

[Brains]

Success! Ta.

Um, It's now asking me to 'permit drawing over other apps'. Do I want to? I don't really understand what it's asking me.

Will it by now have accessed all my passwords currently stored in Google/Chrome, or do I have to add them one by one?

You have to add them one by one

However:
Make sure the Last Pass vault is open, and then using chrome go into each one of your saved sites and log in.
Last Pass will then ask you each time if you want to save it

If you then open the Last Pass vault each time you get on your PC over a period of a few months the vault will self populate, so that it will only ask for brand new log ins.

 

[cisamcgu]

I keep my passwords in Excel, in a password protected spreadsheet, and my usernames in a a different one, with a different password.

Seems good enough to me :-) (If this is silly, please tell me ..)

if using a 3rd party one, like PassKey, if someone hacks into there and steals bazillions of passwords, it may take a long time before the company admits this - maybe too late by then.

 

[Brains]

I keep my passwords in Excel, in a password protected spreadsheet, and my usernames in a a different one, with a different password.

Seems good enough to me :-) (If this is silly, please tell me ..)

if using a 3rd party one, like PassKey, if someone hacks into there and steals bazillions of passwords, it may take a long time before the company admits this - maybe too late by then.

The only silly thing about keeping them in Excel (other than that is the first place any hacker would look) is where do you store Excel ?
If Excel is on the C drive of your home PC, and the Home PC dies or gets stolen, then you are passwordless at best and hacked at worst.

Re the issue of storing all your log ins and passwords in an external password application such as LastPass or KeyPass, I agree that they are an obvious target for hacking, they also know this, hence their security will be impressive, certainly better than anything you can come up with.
However I agree they will only publicize a successful hack after the event, which may be too late.

Therefore, I make a policy of changing my important log ins (anything related to money and cards) once a year.
As I use LastPass to open these websites, the password can be one of those long complicated ones that I never need to remember

I just need to remember my master password which is qwerty