![]() Let's assume someone actually does intercept your order form, and gets all the above-mentioned personal data on you (perhaps because the company processing your order stored all your order info in an unprotected SQL database). Let's assume for the moment that you're correct and that there is a difference in risk level between submitting your name, address, email, credit card number, CVV2 (these are the fields required for a standard online order form), and storing all your passwords on the Internet. Having every bank account and retirement account drained by an enterprising criminal with access to all of my account and personal details is on a completely different risk level. I essentially have insurance to help me recover losses from my credit cards. I think there's a difference between "being willing to accept the risk of my credit card(s) being compromised on the internet" and "being willing to accept the risk of every account password I have being compromised on the internet". Keep in mind that plugins are run in separate processes, which affords some natural protection and isolation. I uninstalled Flash some time ago, and make good use of noscript to prevent untested scripts from running, as that's still a dangerous attack vector. These vectors are still dangerous because of potentially malicious content being served by untrustworthy servers. At this point, though, most attacks are directed at Java, Flash, or the browser's Javascript interpreter. What could possibly go wrong? Surely no one attacks web browsers. Now, the first thing you should know is that both companies are headquartered in countries that are. The 'web integration' puts your password manager in a really bad place - in the browser. This review compares two of the best password managers around, LastPass and 1Password. While encrypted user data wasn't stolen, cyber criminals stole LastPass account email addresses, password reminders, server per-user salts, and authentication hashes. LastPass: An intrusion to the company’s servers was detected. It's in the local client that does the work to turn your clicks and typing into a secured file that doesn't need to trust the storage medium to do anything except store. In theory this kind of hack makes all password managers vulnerable. The problem is not in the remote storage. Like many password managers, it uses 256-AES encryption to keep your master password on your local device instead of transmitting it between your machine and the company’s server. Your advice is especially ironic given the spotty security dropbox is known for. LastPass keeps your data safe by employing several types of encryption. Lastpass is essentially Keepass + a specialized dropbox-type service. >You're telling us not to trust a web based service, but then tell us you keep your data shared like google drive or dropbox? I see no appreciable difference in practice there.
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