![]() Personally, I don’t use public wireless hotspots. Supported platforms include iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Palm OS, and Windows Mobile as well as Windows XP or later and Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) or later. It comes with a 60-day money back guarantee so there is no risk in trying it out. SplashID Safe costs $9.99 for an iOS device and $19.99 for the Mac OS version and is available in the respective App Store. For example, 2fws4BsT, could be ‘Two friends went shopping for blue shoes today.’ Nonsensical but helpful. For a few, I’ve made some crazy sentences that correspond to the password. Remembering random passwords is a little challenging. If you don’t like it, just keep generating them until you find one to your liking. In the mobile version, a possible entry is generated. In the desktop version, numerous possibilities are generated and you select the one you want to use. In the desktop version, you can also specify whether it should be pronounceable or not and how strong it should be. SplashID Safe will indicate how strong the password is from Weak, Fair, Good to Excellent. You can also specify what character sets to use: Obviously, the more characters, the stronger it is. The generated value can be from three to thirty characters in length. Obviously, it makes more sense to use this feature for some information (Username and Password) than for others (Title and URL). Actually, it can generate a random value for you for any field - Title, Username, Password, URL and custom fields. With SplashID Safe, it is very easy to generate a random password. Will this prevent me from being hacked in the future? No, but at least if the bad guys get one of my passwords, it will be just that - ‘one’ of my passwords for only one site. Doing so may be a little drastic and inconvenient but it seems like there have been a spate of compromised websites of late. I see no reason to change now.Īs I log on to websites and applications, I am changing my password to a randomly generated one. There are other options out there but I have used it for many years over multiple platforms, going from Palm to BlackBerry to iPhone and from Windows to Mac. I use SplashData’s SplashID Safe for my password management. My recent spate of ‘break ins’ has caused me to rethink that. Like a lot of people, I reused the same password on my websites and application logins. The other two sites assured me that nothing more nefarious had happened as far as they could tell and that my password was encrypted so it would be a challenge for the thieves to decipher it. Technically, LinkedIn didn’t tell me that my information was comprised. Recently, I’ve had my name, email address and password ‘comprised’ (or, I would say, stolen) from at least three different websites, Evernote, LinkedIn and Jawbone.
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