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Israel cyber chief's 'pants' analogy for password security deemed, well, 'pants'

Andy The Hat Silver badge
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Advice: Use a password manager

Oh goody, lots of password managers to choose from, all which promise to keep all my passwords nice and secure so they must be good ... I'll pick one ... eany meany miney doh!

At which point do I trust one organisation, of which I have no specialist knowledge at all, with all my passwords? The only time this would be good advice is when I was running the password manager company and either I was (a) completely legit and wanted to help the world or (b) completely bogus and wanted to trawl as many passwords as possible. The third option is obviously good intentions plus more security holes than a Trump policy statement allowing access to miscreants anyway.

I don't have a solution but tell me how to find a trustworthy password manager ... and, before someone says it, reading a.n.other's 'reviews' is not a good way of assessing data security, neither is having 'an encrypted database' if the NSA decode and clone it every day, nor is having a local database if the app "updates regularly" by uploading unencryped password data to a C&C server ...

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