Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

Re:Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft by genwin on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @06:32PM (#8260558)

Or a text file or spreadsheet containing passwords, in a TrueCrypt container (I still trust it).

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Re:Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft by corford on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @08:24PM (#8260922)

Yep, I do the same. Master truecrypt container on a USB stick that just contains a text file with all my logons.

Then whenever I change that file I backup the truecypt container to Spideroak so I'm not hosed if I my stick gets lost/broken/stolen.

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Re:Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft by ptwiggens on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @10:41PM (#8261285)

That is completely unusable on mobile.

As someone who consistently needs my passwords on the go, a password manager is really the best way to go.

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Re:Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft by genwin on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @04:41PM (#8265354)

Do you have to trust that the password manager doesn't upload the passwords? I trust TrueCrypt since it isn't specifically for passwords.

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Re:Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft by vellum on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @11:58PM (#8261440)

Don't you run the risk of getting the text file or spreadsheet cached to the temp directory?

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Re:Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft by genwin on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @04:39PM (#8265333)

Good point. I doubt Notepad caches anything on a different drive, but Excel would if auto-save is enabled.

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