Do you let your browser remember your passwords and automatically fill them in for you every time you sign into an online account?
If so, you could well be headed for trouble.
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Do you let your browser remember your passwords and automatically fill them in for you every time you sign into an online account?
If so, you could well be headed for trouble.
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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Monday, February 6, 2023
• Why you MUST remember your LastPass master password
• Tips for creating and storing your computer’s backups
• Q&A: Can I block a website from appearing in my search results?
• Video: “Ever Higher”
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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Monday, August 22, 2022
• How to set a minimum password length for local Windows user accounts
• Why you should always redeem your gift cards ASAP
• Q&A: How can I change where Windows 10 saves new documents?
• Video: Check out this fantastic $10K tiny house
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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Friday, January 7, 2022.
• New malware puts your stored passwords at serious risk
• How to disable the ‘Caps Lock’ key on your Windows keyboard
• Q&A: Can I login to Windows 11 without having to enter a password?
• Can you imagine living your entire life seeing everything in “black and white”?
• Info about my photo / file recovery service
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One of the most difficult tasks in computing is choosing a password that is both hard for hackers to crack and easy to remember.
It’s quite quite easy to do one or the other, but doing both at the same time can be a headache. But it doesn’t have to be.
Lots of folks rely on password managers to help keep their online accounts secure, but I don’t recommend that because using a password manager puts your entire digital life at risk.
The good news is you don’t need to use a password manager in order to create extremely secure (and unique) passwords for each of your online accounts – and remember easily them!
This post explains how to do just that. [Read more…]