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Re: MashedLife Wants to Manage Your Passwords Via the Web

Simone — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:09:21 -0000

Here is my strategy of managing my life online secure with Mashed life:

* Use randome numbers for all my LOW-RISK web accounts (conference, freq flyer, library, social, photo, ...) and store them all in Mash life. If any hackers steal it, no big deal!

* Keep confidential ones (ebay, amazon, etc) into a HINT stored in mashed life. Yes, I found mash life has a hint feature as well, you can't interpret my hint, hahaha.

* Keep the very confidential ones (bank, etc) in my HEAD only.

That's the best practice to keep my life simple and happy!

Re: MashedLife Wants to Manage Your Passwords Via the Web

Jane — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:54:14 -0000

I love the site and use it every day. Once you start using it, you can't live without such a great convenience. It enhances the life style dramatically on the web.

Re: MashedLife Wants to Manage Your Passwords Via the Web

pern0808 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:42:26 -0000

Great idea - but I don't see how the end-user is protected from (i) either the company knowing your personal password or (ii) from a hack/failure on their servers.

I'd prefer to try another new social password manager like Lastpass (lastpass.com) that is 100% locally encrypted on the end-user's machine, uses locally created one-way "salted" hash so the company doesn't know/access my password. Plush the social sharing seems to work more intuitively.

It is a tricky proposition combine social/sharing and security.

Re: MashedLife Wants to Manage Your Passwords Via the Web

PaulGlazowski — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:49:36 -0000

That's seems to be the consensus. Understandable. We'll have to see what comes of these guys, then.

Re: MashedLife Wants to Manage Your Passwords Via the Web

bindermichi — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:27:10 -0000

Don't care about they know about passwords and encrytion... keeping my password within my own head seems to be the most secure way to store them.

And if that won't do I can always create random passwords to store in my TPM with a fingerprint reader for access :)

Re: MashedLife Wants to Manage Your Passwords Via the Web

bindermichi — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:22:49 -0000

Passports was more like a single login account for multiple sites... like OpenId is now, only closed source and with very high monetary fees for the websites.

Re: MashedLife Wants to Manage Your Passwords Via the Web

Max M — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:02:19 -0000

Wow I did not expect to see this on Mash able. I met these guys at a security conference in the Bay Area. For those people above who said they might not know passwords, they do. I've seen these guys' resumes and they have history working at security companies like Verisign and dealing with government level security projects. I started using their website after meeting it and I LOVE it. For me, its blends security, aesthetics, and usability into a nice package.

Re: MashedLife Wants to Manage Your Passwords Via the Web

=jason — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:12:01 -0000

Verisign just launched it's technology to store your passwords and deploy it amongst open id passwords for a one click log-in. tinyCrunch.com covered it.

Re: MashedLife Wants to Manage Your Passwords Via the Web

Chris Messina — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:22:25 -0000

I definitely prefer 1Password. This service just feels odd to me.

Re: MashedLife Wants to Manage Your Passwords Via the Web

PaulGlazowski — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:34:44 -0000

Tried being the key word :)

Re: MashedLife Wants to Manage Your Passwords Via the Web

Andy — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:39:20 -0000

I think Microsoft tried that once...errhhh Passport?