thanks for watching techwiki click the subscribe button then enable
notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos wouldn't it
be nice if everyone was just honest 100 of the time well okay well actually no
that could have unforeseen consequences but it would at least relieve us of the
hassle of keeping track of tons of passwords security questions and pins
just to keep narrative wells out of our personal biz
and this isn't a small problem one study from 2017 indicated that it is
typical for a single email address to be used for a hundred and thirty online
accounts how are you supposed to remember all those passwords i mean i
can't even name 130 of the original pokemon
we got bulbasaur charmander pikachu
squirtle got like uh it's snorlax of pokemon you got eevee
eevee is a pokemon i think the little caterpillar one did you say
amish oh oddish that makes more sense
um what's magikarp magikarp oh i hate magikarp
so this is where a good password manager might be able to save the day for you
the idea behind a password manager is that all of your passwords will be
stored in one place but of course i'm not talking about the
super high tech method of writing them down on a piece of paper need to make a
password just add it to your password minder instead a password manager will
securely store your passwords behind one
master password this way you'll only have to remember one strong password
instead of 130 while still keeping those others away from prying eyes now there
are plenty of password managers out there but the first decision that you'll
need to make when choosing one is whether you want a local or a
cloud-based solution password managers that you install
locally on one computer are actually still a viable option these days they
keep your passwords encrypted on your own hard drive which means that you
don't have to trust the cloud although some of them do offer optional cloud
backup the issue though is that while local
password managers can offer a little bit of comfort to those who are worried
about a prominent cloud-based solution becoming a target of hackers they can
also mean that your passwords will all be lost if something happens to your
computer or worse if someone steals it
so these days cloud-based password managers have gotten much more popular
as your password sit on a secure server somewhere that can be accessed from
anywhere else allowing you to quickly get into your important accounts if
something happens to your phone or your laptop but many password managers come
with features outside of just saving your passwords for example most of them
can auto-generate pseudo-random secure passwords for all of your accounts and
then auto-fill them for you by means of a browser extension or a smartphone app
this is especially useful because it encourages you to avoid the widespread
and terrible practice of reusing the
same password over and over on different sites this is really important because
duplicate passwords mean that an attacker who steals let's say your
instagram password could then also suddenly have access to your email and
once they've got your email think about how many services like even your bank
account that can be reset by sending a password recovery email
so make sure that you take advantage of this feature regardless of what password
manager that you go with other useful features include sharing account access
with folks of your choosing either permanently by just showing them the
login directly or temporarily by auto
filling it for them automatically changing passwords for sites that have
been breached and two-factor authentication which you can learn more
about right up here so sounds pretty good then right well it
is but before you rush out to configure a
password manager keep a couple of caveats in mind the biggest one is that
you must use and remember a strong master
password this is not only to ensure that no one else can guess it but also
because the strength of the encryption used to protect all your other passwords
is often tied to how strong your master password is so if you're not sure how to
pick a secure master password we actually have a video to help you with
that up here also i know it's a hassle to remember a
strong password but at least this way you only need to commit one of them to
memory the next one is that two-factor
authentication i mentioned before you should use it on your password manager
for sure but you should also keep using
a separate app for that on the individual accounts that support it this
is just in case somebody does get into your password manager which could
otherwise be a single point of failure if it's ever compromised so although
some password managers integrate two-factor functionality personally i'd
rather take the few extra seconds to punch in those six digits myself
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