Reply to: Storing multiple passwords & logins

[MrMandala]

Spotted this recently, would prefer if it was open sourced / portable app but interesting nonetheless.

https://www.passwordcard.org/en

[baronne]

lastpass, it rocks!

got a chrome plugin too woop woop!

[Addanc]

keepass.

whs

[Clippy]

Have you thought about how those you leave behind would handle your death?

Good article here regarding this.

[Spacecadet]

I've now started using OneNote to store passwords, found out you can password protect an individual section within a notebook which is nice

[vetran]

keepass works on a java phone as well sync via web.

Even in this I'm cryptic about the really important ones and use one source password I remember.
e.g.

theusual+mybank

[The Wikir Man]

A lot of sites have implemented new password rules, so you now have to use "password1" or "Password1"......

Cunning.

Just use NCC1701D instead - or is that just trekkies?

[al_cam]

I must admit that is one thing that concerns me - I do all the finances, all the business finances, the car insurance, the house insurance etc. all online, and my wife would have no idea where to even start with it.

Me too, but after a very close call in an accident a few years back I wrote a guide for Mrs C telling her everything she needs to know should I not be around. She knows where it is and I update it as things change.

[xoggoth]

I use excel but as well as password I encrypt it using vba. Also for stuff that needs to be really secure I mostly put hints I can understand rather than actual values like my "1st 5 old phone number"

[Tarquin Farquhar]

This came up somewhere else recently. The gist of the advice was to enable the executor of your will to access your password stash. The corollary to that is that you may need to appoint someone who is technically competent with computer stuff for that role, or nominate a technically able person to support the actual executor.

The executor can nominate someone, the important thing is a relevant survivor knowing the passwords.

[Sysman]

An old friend of mine died recently and his widow saw some of that. I was admin contact on his domains so I could change owner to her without any problem, but not everything was so smooth. Fortunately she is not dependent on his money so she can wait for the legal system to take its course.

I had a note in my diary to do the same in reverse, make him one of the contacts on my domains. I suppose I can cross that off now

Seriously, an impenetrable mess and lack of access to money would be an awful thing to leave her with, on top of your passing. It can be trouble enough: insurance may not come through fast enough to keep the mortgage paid, for example.

This came up somewhere else recently. The gist of the advice was to enable the executor of your will to access your password stash. The corollary to that is that you may need to appoint someone who is technically competent with computer stuff for that role, or nominate a technically able person to support the actual executor.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

I must admit that is one thing that concerns me - I do all the finances, all the business finances, the car insurance, the house insurance etc. all online, and my wife would have no idea where to even start with it.

I can only hope that she can guess my password! (And also hope that the router doesn't need rebooting, as she doesn't know the password to that, either)

An old friend of mine died recently and his widow saw some of that. I was admin contact on his domains so I could change owner to her without any problem, but not everything was so smooth. Fortunately she is not dependent on his money so she can wait for the legal system to take its course.

I had a note in my diary to do the same in reverse, make him one of the contacts on my domains. I suppose I can cross that off now

Seriously, an impenetrable mess and lack of access to money would be an awful thing to leave her with, on top of your passing. It can be trouble enough: insurance may not come through fast enough to keep the mortgage paid, for example.

[Lumiere]

Firefox + Xmarks. Simples.

[The Wikir Man]

Have you thought about how those you leave behind would handle your death?

I must admit that is one thing that concerns me - I do all the finances, all the business finances, the car insurance, the house insurance etc. all online, and my wife would have no idea where to even start with it.

I can only hope that she can guess my password! (And also hope that the router doesn't need rebooting, as she doesn't know the password to that, either)

[hyperD]

I just use "password" - works every time for me.

And everyone else apparantly.