You can also explore all the reasons you seriously need a password manager and how 1Password compares to LassPass, another popular password manager.Īt the time, 1Password customer service asked me if I had my "emergency kit," a record of my master password and secret key, a code the company gives you when you sign up for a subscription. For a broader look at the situation, check CNET's coverage about password problems - including more about why experts recommend the very password managers that got me in trouble, the reasons two-factor authentication isn't as secure as you might hope and modernized advice for picking passwords. I'm not the only person suffering from password problems. Once your passwords become sufficiently complicated, you won't really know what the passwords are unless you're writing them down. But then, of course, you need a password for that password manager. Ideally, you should be creating so many unique, complicated passwords that a password manager is the only safe direction. My problem is partly a consequence of today's need for an endless supply of secure passwords. I have mismanaged my supposedly careful management of my passwords. Can I explain how I entered this fugue state of password confusion? Not at all.Īt some point I fumbled my passwords. And I realized suddenly that the master password being asked for wasn't the same as the password I had been using previously, before I added the subscription. It had been working smoothly with my iPhone's Face ID to unlock access to my passwords, but that stopped working after a phone reboot. Then came the weekend that I tried logging into the app and found my password wasn't working. I chose the 1Password password manager and after installing it, upgraded to a subscription so I could access my passwords across multiple devices. I took the basic security advice: use a password manager and then have it create different passwords for each site.
I did something really stupid with some of the most important data in my life two years ago. If you still aren't using a password manager, CNET recommends Bitwarden. We're rerunning it today in honor of World Password Day. Editor's note, May 4, 2022: This commentary originally ran in March 2020.
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