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by superxor 5119 days ago
LastPass is an excellent service to manage your passwords. Their Firefox add-on is amazing. If you are not the paranoid-type (i.e. not scared to put your passwords in a 3rd party cloud) then I strongly recommend LastPass. Their browser add-ons are free and their mobile apps a mere 1$.
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LastPass don't store your passwords per se. Your passwords are SHA256 hashed locally.

I love their system, but I think LastPass don't do a good enough job of explaining the security behind the system to those who are a bit more skeptical.

> 1. DO NOT check whether or not your password was compromised via services like leakedin.org. If you've used LinkedIn, it was stolen. They only RELEASED around 6 million passwords, though LinkedIn has 161 million users. Odds are, your password is not found from the publicized list. There's very little reason to assume, that those password-hashes were the only ones out there...

Correction: 6.5 million hashes, which most definitely comprise more than 6.5 million users once commonly used passwords are accounted for. Of course, we are both making assumptions, but it is not accurate to say it is only 6.5m users (just yet).

A mere $1 "per month".