With the wallet split taking place on Steemit.com, I used it as a spark of inspiration to change my passwords across various accounts that should have heightened security: Steem, exchanges etc. I haven't been very careful with my passwords in the past but I think that it is time to change that behavior, so I decided to create new and, secure them with LastPass.

I don't know if that is a good idea yet.

As I said the other day in a post about security, crypto is going to have to find ways to make it a fair bit easier for people to use the services if it is going to become mainstream. While I am all for responsibility of ownership, I also don't want to hear all the drama and complaints of people losing their keys or having their crypto stolen. Yes, it does happen accidentally but on steem, if you have been using your Masterkey for logging on, there is a certain amount of just a matter of time before it happens.

I am glad that Steemit Inc has split the wallet away (would be nice with some back keys) though and I really hope that they are going to do as they have said and develop the interface of steemit.com faster. Without needing to worry about token security, they should be able to get some trial and error integrations in to test with the community and polish them later.

What I have been surprised by is how many people didn't know that the split of wallet and condenser was happening and some of them based on their activity and history REALLY SHOULD have known as it has been in the pipeline and announced for several months already. This is something that happens a lot though as there are people who like to talk about all they know but, don't actually know when major things take place. It happened with Resource credits also. Stay up to date, follow @steemitblog at the very least and most of all, don't create drama where there isn't any.

But, that is the way updates go on Steem and in life in general. For every change that some people like, there are a group of others that don't care for it at all. Winners and losers, no matter the outcome.

Of course, it is getting harder ad harder to stay up to date with all the things that are happening on Steem and then on top of that, you might have noticed that there has been a slight move in the markets also, With BTC up about 20% in 48 hours. Steem the lagger coin will follow soon enough.

This is the other reason to get into good password hygiene habits because the higher the prices, the more shortcuts to wealth people are going to try and take and when there are millions of users that are going to be pouring in, the sharks are going to be looking for easy targets. Are you an easy target?

At the end of 2017, early 2018 a lot of new users came onto Steem and, a lot of them lost their keys in their first days. I hope that doesn't happen this time but, there are lots of dead accounts out there created by people who heard about free money but didn't read the instructions on the box very well. We have grown accustomed to having centralized authorities look after our security for so long people forget that that isn't secure.

Let's see if LastPass is worth the 3 dollars a month for Premium - I have my reservations so I will approach it with caution. So, resetting passwords and cleaning up my record keeping is what I have spent the last four hours of my life doing and hopefully, it will help me stay a little safer in the future.

Responsibility is key, your key is your responsibility.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]