![]() Provided to me was the 1Password Families account which allows me to share my subscription with five other family members who have ‘private’, yet ‘all access’ to 1Password. My 1Password membership is included in my monthly payments to eero for their eero Plus service, though for you, you can purchase 1Password directly through their website for as little as $2.99 per month. Fortunately for the consumer, the costs of cloud password managers are ridiculously low and are a month by month cost. They’re hosting your passwords on their servers and that, unfortunately, comes at a small cost. Well, some offer free versions of their paid service, but they are strictly limited. The very first problem I had with password managers is that they aren’t free. LastPass is my work password manager with KeePass being the predecessor to my 1Password switch. Now, before anybody thinks I sound biased toward 1Password as it’s my first personal cloud-based password manager, I have used LastPass and KeePass 2 before. Note: Due to privacy concerns, some objects have been blurred or removed from the picture and may not be an accurate view of 1Password. ![]() The question is, can I convince you to swap over and stop poor password use as well? ![]() Web-based, but desktop and mobile application friendly, 1Password really helped calm my nerves about cloud password managers and now offers me ultimate security for all of my accounts. Included in my recent eero Plus review was a full subscription to 1Password, so I decided to check them out as my personal password manager. Other big players include Dashlane, RoboForm and Keeper. LastPass and 1Password have been two of the big players in this market as they battle one another for market share. So many password managers to choose from, but there are two that have become the kings in the market. What would happen if the company were to go under, or if they were hacked, or if they held my passwords to ransom? After extensive research, those questions were answered as they will be revealed to you later on. Until this review, I was never a fan of web-based password managers. Their ease of access while protecting your passwords and giving you access to your password anywhere at anytime is quite a good selling point. Password managers have recently picked up in popularity. There’s no reason that we should be doing this and it’s time to stop. That was me and I have a strong feeling that is most of you, using the same thing everywhere we go. You login like normal and in a matter of seconds, you’ve transmitted the username and password you use for every website directly to a hacker. Regardless, you’ve now ended up at a phishing website that is designed and built like the real thing. Or worse, your memory flipped a bit when processing the correct website. Maybe you fat fingered the keyboard and accidentally hit ‘a’ instead of ‘s’. Well, what if a hacker were to purchase At a quick glance it looks really similar to the correct website, but the ‘s’ has swapped to an ‘a’. We can see that we are on and it all looks okay. When we go log into our bank, we know what the website looks like and what the login process is like. ![]() They got that access because you used the same login credentials on a phishing website.Ī phishing website is a website where a hacker sets up a website to look like what you expect it to look like. Imagine someone gaining access to your social media account and posting political statements that you don’t stand for. You wouldn’t know somebody had access to your account until they begin doing something malicious. Guess the password for one website and suddenly they’ve got your username, email, and password for all websites because we want things to be simple and rememberable so we keep it all the same. It’s typically shown to everybody and if the website allows you to log in using a username instead of an email, now all a hacker needs to do is guess your password. On many websites, that username we use is public information. That doesn’t sound so bad, does it? In fact, it could be catastrophic. Then, to keep things simple, we use the same password or a familiar one. Almost all of us will have a username that we like to use everywhere and if it’s unique enough, we can typically get the username we like. An account that can use a username or email as identification followed by a password to gain access to that account.Īs we expand our website browsing habits, we need to begin to remember more logins and with that more passwords. Before this review, I was somebody who was reusing passwords and stored them inside my head, occasionally resetting the passwords when I forgot them.Įverywhere you go on the internet needs an account to access specific website features. ![]()
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