One thing to keep in mind is that password keepers and the browser function to remember passwords have their own vulnerabilities that can resut in an attacker taking advantage of these.
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Thanks Loi for posting this interesting article. Passwords are made to protect our information, but it also becomes a problem for some people. Usually, people like using same password for everything because it is easy to remember and use. However, we always have a time that we need other people to enter the password for us. In this way, other people can be aware of your password. Then they can try it on your banking account. You recommenced several software for managing our password, but it is still a issue when we don’t have our computer with us. I think using finger print like iPhone is really a good way to help us to solve the problem. It is easy and hard to be stolen.
Between accessing different apps at work and various accounts/websites at home, managing all these passwords has been a pain. I am guilty of not being very creative when it comes to password creation. It’s just so hard to manage all of them, and I don’t trust any app to manage them for me. At work, I ended up creating a notepad with the list of my passwords with asterisks in them. I would just, for example, have 2 or 3 characters out of 10 that are not asterisks. This would help me remember what the pw was, if I ever forgot. With the advent of Samsung’s S7 Iris scanner, I am hoping it will catapult biometric scanning to become mainstream.
The finger print scanners have their own issues. There are known techniques for tricking the scanners with copies of prints. Also, there have been some studies indicating familial similarities. Finally, until recently, IOS let you add additional people to your phone without resetting access to applications. This leads to people having unintended access.