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This is a favorite subject of mine, and I have to say at first I thought this post was a joke. I mean, who DOESN'T use a password manager? Is that even possible to live without one? Even my dog has passwords, like his LinkedIn account. (He's a working dog).
You should at least look at KeePass. I've used many apps over the years, and paid for some, I even starting writing my own at one point. I have standardized on KeePass for the following reasons:
1. It's open source.
2. It's well maintained.
3. You control where the data is, not some corporation, especially not the "cloud".
4. It's free.
5. It has the most useful features, in my opinion.
I have well over 300 unique passwords and I keep my keepass database on my own private cloud storage that I built myself, that is synced across all my devices, work and home. In addition to the main password, the database is secured by a certificate that is stored locally on those devices, so even if my database was stolen, and my password cracked, you still cannot decrypt my passwords.
I do not know or care what all my various passwords are. KeePass enters them for me. Also, wife and kids have their own Keepass databases... I consider it one of those MUST HAVE applications. It's not perfect, but it's pretty close.
There is a learning curve if you want to do advanced things such as having it automatically launch a Putty session and log into a Linux server, but with a little reading all these things are possible. I don't know the exact date, but I think I switched to keepass over 10 years ago. I have NEVER lost a password.
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Bless those who can have an Internet connection always active anywhere - AKA the rich part of US and Europe. For me any password manager is useless because either it's local to the device - thus not synced - or it's mostly unavailable, thus useless.
My password manager is called brain, I can't forget to bring it it anywhere and if it goes offline passwords would be the last of my problems.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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According to my password manager, I have 87 accounts which doesn't count those which are doubled up (like putting all my secondary gmail accounts in the notes of my main gmail account.) This also doesn't count one-off accounts, where I simply do a reset on the rare occasion I actually need to access them again, and several unimportant accounts where I keep the password in my browser and/or on a sheet of paper next to my computer.
(There there is a VeriSign account I didn't even know I had until I was asked to authorize a payment through VeriSign, whereupon it said I had an account, let me reset the password, fill out the form, and then dumped it down a black hole [while, I suppose, laughing evilly.])
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Is everything we use a string for really just a bunch of characters? Is everything we use an int for really just a number? Probably not. We can have stronger types than that. Do your types even lift?
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Yeah, but from a C++ dev's perspective. And you know what they think of .NET 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: And you know what they think of .NET
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Umm, in his example you don't need "strong types" at all. Just check that the properties have meaningful values when they are loaded.
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Unlike most of those though, in C++ the Semantic types have zero or close to zero overhead.
Further, with user-defined literals, it allows natural expressions such as:
auto distance = 12_km;
auto time = 4_s;
auto speed = distance / time;
Giving safe, statically checked, zero-overhead semantic types.
(Edit - substituted distance for length)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Unlike most of those though, in C++ the Semantic types have zero or close to zero overhead.
Oh, I'm not complaining about the C++ example, it's just, how exactly is this new and profound? I guess I was in a bit of a mood (more-so than usual, haha) and I do definitely wish C# had that feature -- it's supposed to be coming in C# 7.0 I think I read somewhere?
Marc
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There comes a point when you have to stop designing code with the intent that it be maintained by idiots. (Especially since the idiots will probably get annoyed and remove all the strong typing, arguably making everything worse.)
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New research shows that 98 percent of developers use open source tools at work, with 56 percent revealing that more than half of their development tools are open source, and 18 percent using only open source tools. New study of open source developers provides amazing conclusion
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"JavaScript is the preferred programming language according to 51 percent of respondents"
The group giving that result is a group whose opinion I don't value. Not sarcasm.
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New Salary tool gives users access to aggregate compensation data. We now have a purpose for LinkedIn, besides finding out which coworkers are looking for a new job
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The company’s new service, Microsoft Teams is its own take on the popular team communication tool, Slack. All the joy of IRC, without that irritating free sticker
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This just in...
...Microsoft has decided to cancel Microsoft Teams...
Thanks for your interest, but mostly we just announce products and then cancel them.
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"Now, Microsoft apparently wanted to buy Slack for $8 billion."
Instead they wrote they own for what? A million or two? Even at $10 million that's quite a savings.
(Reminds me of a place which used some messenger tool, but almost nobody used it so when it popped up there was always a "huh?" moment. It was especially annoying when the person messaging you was in the next cubicle.)
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Jornet is the principal investigator of a three-year, $624,497 grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to help develop a wireless communication network in the terahertz band. "I'm on a wavelength far from home"
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So the next global malware whammy will be disseminated by 30,000,000 zit poppers?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The technology could ultimately reduce the time it takes to complete complex tasks, such as migrating the files of one computer to another, from hours to seconds.
Except that CPU's run at barely gigahertz frequencies and the fastest SSD's write at "up to a 1.5Ghz" bit rate, effectively around 185Mhz byte rate.
And while I know I'm mixing bit/byte rates, you're not going to achieve migrating files from one computer to another in seconds just because your antenna can handle terahertz data rates (I assume that's a bit rate.)
Marc
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While I agree with the basic point you're making, it seems you've over-egged the pudding somewhat.
You can get (pci-e) SSDs that'll do 3,300 megabytes a second and even a lowly SataIII ssd can hit write speeds of 550 megs a second. Figures some 17.8 times and 3 faster respectively than the 185 megs/sec you've indicated.
Currently, a 700GB (pci-e) ssd can be filled in as little as 4 minutes.
I'm also under the impression you've a different take on the words "could ultimately reduce" - the keywords of course, being 'could ultimately'. A Terrabit per second is some 125 Gigabytes per second.
Of course, when (if) read/write speeds are high enough to keep up, storage capacities will be much larger and so again the time taken blows out.
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Discovery of Linux/IRCTelnet suggests troubling new DDoS menace could get worse. Please change the password on your internet-enabled light bulb
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You know, what I want is for someone to post some code that tells me whether my IoT devices have been infected. I mean really, I've got several Beaglebone's running Debian with "debian/temppwd" as the root password connected to the Internet, and I really don't give a sh*t, but I am curious.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: what I want is for someone to post some code that tells me whether my IoT devices have been infected
It's called an "antivirus".
Marc Clifton wrote: I really don't give a sh*t,
Isn't that the general problem in this case?
Sorry if I come across as blunt, but I need my coffee in the morning.
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