Opinion: Passwords as a concept are completely broken

re: Opinion: Passwords as a concept are completely broken

jamiet — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:14:54 GMT

Greg,

Agreed. As a halfway house I use Lastpass; its not ideal (not least because it has a glaring single point of failure) but, for me, its the best option right now.

re: Opinion: Passwords as a concept are completely broken

Chris Donges — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:32:46 GMT

OpenID was an attempt to fix the problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID

re: Opinion: Passwords as a concept are completely broken

RichB — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:51:14 GMT

Aye, and it's only getting worse, with many sites now demanding about 3 different passwords, letters from ordinal positions within them, and magnifying the problem with dates of birth and mothers maiden names (which of course I am just going to plug into some poxy webforum).

Key fobs to generate randomish numbers, one of which you need a pin to input first... HSBC needs: 1xmembership number (about 11 digits), 1xmemorable code (over 8 iirc) AND 1xPin to generate an rsa type # to tap in.

Almost always there to protect what... a forum login??

re: Opinion: Passwords as a concept are completely broken

Ben Thul — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:17:57 GMT

I couldn't tell you what most of my passwords are. I, like Jamie, use something to remember and generate them for me. I like the combination of KeePass and Dropbox.

re: Opinion: Passwords as a concept are completely broken

Stephen Mandeville — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:56:03 GMT

I use Keepass 2 professionally and personaly

Free and it works great

Whole DBA team uses a shared version.

re: Opinion: Passwords as a concept are completely broken

snewfie — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:10:25 GMT

And I forgot to mention That I also use Dropbox to have acces to my passwords from anywhere.

re: Opinion: Passwords as a concept are completely broken

@Hennie7863 — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:53:35 GMT

Yep really true and we need another solution for this. I'm getting crazy with all of the different passwords for sites.

Yet another problem are the devices. Some sites reset the passwords (in case you forgot) and the result of this is, that i have to re-enter the password on every device.

re: Opinion: Passwords as a concept are completely broken

Andrew Oliver — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:01:40 GMT

http://xkcd.com/936/