Nope, and when someone hacks into your manager, don't make a thread whining about it. :hatsoff:
actually Will, and take this however you want to take it, but i've used a password manager for about 8 years now and have never had anyone break into it. never. i'm just curious if there are any other pw managers that are a bit more robust than the one i've always used. thanks to Shayd by the way, great recommendation and to all the others who suggested one.
however, i've had two colleauges at work who actually did use pen and paper for thier passwords and both of thier work accounts have been hacked into. now our company policy states quite clearly that pen and paper are NOT to be used for passwords and doing so is grounds for discipline. Why is that? because the IT dept discovered that almost all security breaches into electronic data was done because a password written down was easily discoverd. And i'll go you one further, most major businesses also enforce this rule and practically all data security consulting firms recommend the same. so i'm gonna go with the pro's here. no offense.
also when i was a senior in college there were 6 of us who shared a house and we easily discoverd one of our roomies password list. we weren't even looking for it, he just placed it in a place he THOUGHT was safe. we happily changed his yahoo home page (this was a few years ago) password, his hotmail password and his ICQ.
fortunately we were all good friends and it was more funny than harmful but still, the fact that i had his mom's debit card pin # should cause alarm.
also in college, a teaching assistant kept her passwords written down and kept them in her purse. we know this because her laptop and purse were stolen and well, shit hit the fan.
So, in my experience, i've never had my password manager hacked. i dont know anyone who has had their password manager hacked either. and i'm talking real life friends who i know to be honest and wouldnt lie to me. i do, however, know folks who use the method you're ridiculing me for not using and some of them have had thier passwords hacked. off the top of my head, that would be 4 people and 3 of those suffered severe consequences and 1 was just lucky he had honest friends.
so from my own personal experience, the exact opposite of what you suggest has proven to be far safer. i guess the good thing that came out of the pen and paper method was that work enforced the secure id keyfob method. not that this is a foolproof method but it is another step in making it more difficult to access private data.
i realize that this a long response but hopefully i'm doing you a favor and your data will be protected in the future. thanks for making it this far in my response. :wave2:
oh and i'm not really one who is prone to whining so dont worry about me starting that thread you've told me not to start :glugglug:
