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How to keep your CounterWallet Password Safe?

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• shopnhowler

  

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  There's also keepass/keepassx

  Posted on August 17, 2014 at 1:12 PM
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• irnhnve

  

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  I have a lockbox with all my passwords written down by hand. Counterwallet is just another one of the ever expanding list. I use lastpass for other things but am too paranoid to use it on potentially valuable things

  Posted on August 17, 2014 at 4:39 PM
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• cryptoMatic

  

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  @irnhnve I have a lockbox with all my passwords written down by hand. Counterwallet is just another one of the ever expanding list. I use lastpass for other things but am too paranoid to use it on potentially valuable things

  Same, even if you copy and paste to a text document and encrypt it there is still time where it is exposed and left unencrypted. This would be upon initially typing the pass phrase and then going to actually encrypt it or the reverse.

  Posted on August 17, 2014 at 4:41 PM
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• catlinhappy

  

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  I choose Lastpass it good and safe.

  Posted on August 20, 2014 at 7:08 AM
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• paolo09

  

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  @jamesmm Very nice, thanks for your input!

  I'll probably check out LastPass. Looks like it would be useful for a lot of things besides BTC.

  And at $12/year, what a good price.

  or you can also try keepass, same as lastpass, but free for personal use, and exist a linux client as well (keepassX)

  i'm using it here at work, our password policies are very strict, change password after 3 months, minimum 13 chars and so on, give it a check

  Posted on August 20, 2014 at 7:22 AM
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• eshriek

  

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  I've been considering LastPass for over a year. I would still consider using LastPass but there has been some bad press. Keep in mind that LastPass introduces another potential point of failure:

  Last month: "The flaws, affecting bookmarklets and one-time passwords (OTP), were identified in August 2013 by University of California, Berkeley researchers Zhiwei Li, Warren He, Devdatta Akhawe and Dawn Song.

  According to LastPass, the vulnerabilities were addressed shortly after being reported to the company by Zhiwei, but their existence was disclosed only now because the researchers have published a paper on security holes found in some of the most popular Web-based password managers." source: http://www.securityweek.com/lastpass-notifies-users-otp-bookmarklet-vulnerabilities

  This month: A DDOS attack (I think) knocked LastPass services out for about 8 hours. If you go with LastPass look into the offline service ahead of time. You'll probably want to know how to deal when the site goes down. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/12/lastpass_outage/

  Posted on August 20, 2014 at 7:54 AM
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• markxmayer

  

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  @paolo09

  @jamesmm Very nice, thanks for your input!

  I'll probably check out LastPass. Looks like it would be useful for a lot of things besides BTC.

  And at $12/year, what a good price.

  or you can also try keepass, same as lastpass, but free for personal use, and exist a linux client as well (keepassX)

  i'm using it here at work, our password policies are very strict, change password after 3 months, minimum 13 chars and so on, give it a check

  LastPass is also free.

  The premium service is $12/year, which removes ads and lets you use mobile apps as well.

  Posted on August 20, 2014 at 8:02 AM
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• zonda

  

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  Your brain is the king, if you can't manage it, use the lastpass of course! :)

  Posted on August 21, 2014 at 4:22 AM
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• alwinlinzee

  

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  To keep it safe try and put it on a notepad.

  Posted on August 23, 2014 at 9:41 AM
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• Louie2001912

  

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  Super safe

  Posted on August 23, 2014 at 9:42 AM
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