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Password managers are quite popular these days, and Dashlane is one of the most-used providers of that service on the web.
Well, the folks at Dashlane have just published a new blog post about a great sounding initiative they’ve developed called “Project Mirror: Kill the Password”.
I won’t go into the details of how Project Mirror will work because you can get all that info in their blog post should you choose to read it. But I will tell you that I don’t like it. [Read more…]
Question from Julia V.: I have a question about passwords Rick.
I use pretty long passwords that contain special characters. I often make a mistake when typing a password and have to re-enter the password again. That’s very frustrating to say the least.
Is there a setting in Chrome that will let you review a password you typed before pressing the Enter key or clicking the Login button?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Oliver: After reading your post about replacing Windows with Linux I decided to give to try it on an old Windows Vista laptop that I haven’t used in a while.
I took your advice from that post and installed Ubuntu. The installation went fine, and just as you predicted that old laptop now runs a LOT faster than it did with Windows!
Since I’m the only person that will use this machine I removed the password in the user settings and set it to boot into Ubuntu without having to enter a password.
Now the laptop boots up without asking for a password to log in, but every time I load Google Chrome I get a message telling me to enter the password, and I can’t do anything with Chrome until I enter the old password that I deleted from my user account. This is the message I get:
“Enter password to unlock your login keyring“
How can I stop Chrome from asking for a password?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Important update: Chrome and Firefox have both started flagging the tool I recommend in this post as malware. I believe this to be a clear case of a false positive but I have removed the links just to be safe.
Original post continues below… [Read more…]
Passwords have been the primary means of authenticating the identities of computer users for decades, but that might not be the case for too much longer.
A consortium known as The FIDO Alliance (aka Fast IDentity Online) has just released specifications for alternate methods of verifying a user’s identity using biometric sensors and physical identity tokens. [Read more…]