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Pocket password organiser keeps your secrets safe
PASSWORDS ARE a strange concept, as they are designed to allow one person access to information making it secure, yet what happens when you forget a password, or it is too easy to hack?
Well, Atek reckons it has the solution, a handheld device it is naming the Logio Password Organiser.
The problem with passwords is that there are so many rules around creating them to make them as secure as possible that they have become a somewhat difficult concept to manage.
You shouldn’t have a password that is too complex as you might forget it, you can’t have one that’s too simple as someone could guess it, you can’t write them down, and you can’t use the same one for everything.
Seeing as the 21st Century requires a password for almost everything – your bank, your email, your work, your mobile phone, your internet shopping... Atek obviously thought it had to come up with something to solve these worries.
With the new gadget you only have to remember one code, in order to get into the thing to find out your other ones. The way it works is very similar to the mobile phone, as you enter for example INQUIRER the Logio reads this as 46784737.
Atek reckons this is not only secure but also convenient as you can carry it wherever you go, but surely this only adds to how insecure it is as if someone else gets hold of it you’ve not only lost all of your passwords together but someone else has them in their possession.
The other problem with the Logio is that it asks you to enter your name and phone number, now this isn’t compulsory, yet if you do enter this information it will appear to anyone who turns the device on, regardless of them entering the password.
Upsides in Atek’s eyes are the fact that it is only 1/8” thin and light weight, yet for many of us this will simply mean it is easier to lose.
The Logio is however available in two colours, black and white and is priced at $29.95 which is around £18. µ
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£18 for something that will wear out? And you have to remember and then type in the keyword for each web-site.
Try £0 for Firefox + PasswordMaker. It knows the domain name so once you've typed in the master pass phrase filling out passwords is a clik away. And you can copy the setup file to wherever you are and not worry about others finding it, they will need the master pass phrase.
My laptop has a finger print reader and a PIM with password store. I can't go around forgetting my finger prints.
My G1 has a pattern password to get in the phone and then there is a password manager app.
Why would I spend money on something available in one form or another on all of my devices.
Toss in the fact that you can use a standard format to your passwords such as always using vowels and having replacement characters or always using numbers and convert them using a very simple formula.
Then you need to remember 5 consistent keys or a stupid simple formula like (10*X)-2 and even if someone steals and hacks your (phone/laptop/piece of paper in your wallet) they are stuck with a bunch of passwords that don't work.
Live having and encryption key in your head and that is also free and quite easy to remember rather than 19 personal passwords.
Maybe I didn't read the article right, because I don't see any mention of the device having a security mechanism of its own, like a login? Gee, if that's so, then the device is ironically stupid and pretty dangerous if you ever lose it.
IIRC at least my last 3 Nokia phones have had a secure password manager built in.