keepass password storage

For years I’ve been having issues trying to keep track of my passwords. Everything we do these days involves passwords. Technology is evolving quicker than the human mind is evolving with its capacity to be able to memorise all these passwords.

Solution? Keep all your passwords in a centrally managed database.

This creates a problem – what happens when someone discovers your little diary, or that piece of paper stuck under the desk, with all your passwords on. Assuming the diary that you keep in your purse or European carry-all isn’t SSL encrypted, you are totally exposing yourself to the potential of identity fraud.

Solution? KeePass Password Safe.

KeePass Password Safe is the ultimate tool for storing passwords. It’s intuitive and easy to integrate for copying and pasting stuff into forms, and highly secure. I use a floppy disk to store the key file to open up my passwords database, which I can hide around the house. I make it so you also need to know my master password, just in case the disk falls into the wrong hands! Mind you they’d need to use my computer as well, which being password protected with my “other” master password would make life incredibly difficult for any intruder… unless they just want to sell my computer for parts. That’d succ!

You can sort passwords into categories, sub-categories, and sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub categories if you are that way inclined. You can store all sorts of details with each password, such as other account information or whatever. If you make yourself a key-disk I highly recommend creating a backup copy and stashing that at a friends house, away from where you keep your backed up data (which I’m hoping you store at a different friends house ;) ).

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