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Plus, if you have biometrics enabled, most of the time you can unlock your password database with a fingerprint or a view of your face. That means when you’re using a keyboard to type in a login or password, in any app, you can pull in a password manager and enter the data directly with no app switching.
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Those days are thankfully in the past.īoth recent Android systems and iOS (Apple, not Cisco) versions allow third-party password managers to integrate directly into the data entry system. That meant you’d have to go from one app into your password manager, look up the site/app, copy the password, switch back to the app, paste the password, and then hope you got it right. It’s always been possible to have some sort of password management app on your phone, but until recently, the operating systems didn’t integrate with password managers. Heck, Elon Musk said that we’ve become cybernetic beings, it’s just that the bandwidth to our cybernetic components is really slow (that is, typing on our phones). Mobile devices have become the way most people do most things online. If the goal is having smart passwords, it needs to be easier to use smart passwords than to type “password123” everywhere. If you’ve ever eaten a Hot Pocket instead of cooking a healthy meal, you can understand the mindset that causes people to make poor password choices. I have a Keurig coffee machine, not because the coffee is better, but because it’s more convenient. Heck, I’m guilty of that myself in many cases. But for the vast majority of people, the path of least resistance is the way to go. They understand the value of privacy, understand security, and they take their data very seriously. Sure, some people are geeky enough to use a password manager at any cost. If it’s more complicated to use a password manager than it is to re-use the same set of passwords on multiple sites, many people will just choose the easy way. It may seem like a cheesy thing to say, but it’s a powerful truth. As Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and myself discussed in Episode 8 of the Linux Journal Podcast, the best password manager is the one you use.
No, I’m not burying the lede by skipping to all the reviews. But although passwords remain the main method for protecting accounts and data, there needs to be a better way to handle them-that’s where password managers come into play. Is the “password” outdated? Should we have something better by now? Granted, there is two-factor authentication, which is a great way to help increase the security on accounts. There’s a much bigger conversation to be had regarding the best way to protect data. If you use the same password for any two sites, you’re making yourself vulnerable if any single database gets compromised. It seems that another data breach happens almost daily, exposing sensitive information for millions of users, which means you need to have separate, secure passwords for each site and service you use. There were lots of tricks to make your passwords better, and for years, that was enough. Those passwords needed to be lengthy, hard to guess and easy to remember.
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I used to teach people how to create “good” passwords. If you can remember all of your passwords, they’re not good passwords.
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