How do you save your passwords?
The best way to store your passwords is to print them down offline in a piece of paper. If you don't have a printer, you may try some of the following strategies to secure your private keys. Make sure to read the whole post.
1. Keepass. Keepass is a offline password manager for storing passwords on your computer. You can use it to store your less important passwords such as facebook, twitter and other social sites. You can download it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/
The official website of keepass is https://keepass.info. But I would recommend downloading it from the sourceforge link. It is extremely important that you do not download such security focused software from trusted sources.
Or else you might download it from a malicious website which could compromise your passwords.
2. Lastpass. Lastpass is an online password manager. It has excellent security and its user data has never gotten hacked so far. Well, they did get hacked in 2011 but since they use end to end encryption, the actual passwords never got hacked.
Using lastpass with 2FA or two factor authentication is a cheap and easy way to save your passwords you use everyday.
Though, saving passwords related to finance (Steem private keys) is not recommended. 2FA is not enabled on lastpass by default. I don't think it is a good idea to use lastpass without 2FA.
Lastpass's official website has all the information about how to use 2FA with it. Learn more on https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/google-authenticator-lp030015 (this is lastpass's official helpdesk)
You can install lastpass from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lastpass-free-password-ma/hdokiejnpimakedhajhdlcegeplioahd
Also, if you use lastpass, make sure to add your phone number in the settings.
For storing financial credentials, you might want to use a combination of lastpass and keepass. For example, if you are storing private keys, store half of the private key in lastpass and the other half on keepass.
Make sure to use different master passwords for keepass and lastpass. If you use two different services, even if one gets hacked, your private key will stay secure. Also, make sure to always print or write down yours private keys.
Lastly, don't do anything if you are not sure what you are doing. If you lose access to your passwords such as Steem owner keys, your account will get bricked. So, be very very careful when dealing with passwords.
Nice article, 2FA with phone can be tricky as wekk, there are known instances when hackers managed mobile operators to reset certain mobile number and gain access to 2fA...
But he still needs access to the master password. And those trickery are social engineering hacks. They often fail if the hacker doesn't have enough info on the victim.
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