You have found the weakest point in programs like 1PassWord. In the last few weeks, though, some things have come out to ameliorate the situation.
1. Apple now has its iCloud keychain, which means for a certain class of secrets, web passwords and credit card numbers, you can have automatic pasting on OS/X and IOS. The password for your keychain defaults to your logon password in OS/X, but it can be changed. 2. 1PassWord on the Mac now has a menu-bar widget that makes the cut and paste much more convenient. —Barry On Nov 19, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > 5 - This leads to keepass, 1password etc to remember all your passwords for > you. Silly, but still appears reasonable. But they typically fail in > certain situations. Ex: they are designed for browser use so are > plugins/bookmarklets. But what if you have a phone "app". Won't work. So > you have to do stupid tricks to go to the pw app and cut/paste. > > The fallback is a password keeper as mentioned above. But do you really want > it to keep all your passwords? I do. Remembering several hundred secure passwords isn’t an option. > You're dead without it (travel etc) and it simply doesn't work in all > situations (apps vs browser) My experience is that it works everywhere; the only question is how convenient is it. I think I had to write a password on a piece of paper once in the last 3 years — I don’t recall why I had to do it. > and its a bit creepy to depend on a computer program for all your security. We wouldn’t have to if the hackers didn’t have computers.
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