A Friendly Security Reminder

Day 838, 09:38 Published in Australia USA by Serendipitous

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With our involvement in South Africa heating up, it gets more and more important to beef up security in the forums and in-game.

Here are some useful places to get randomized passwords:

http://www.lastpass.com

I use LastPass myself, it's a great tool and it can automatically generate passwords. Also stores notes and other nifty items. With automatically generated passwords, you don't even have to see the password yourself. If you never type it in, how can they find it? LastPass can be integrated instantly into Firefox, so it's quite useful!

http://keepass.info/

I haven't tried KeePass personally, but I've heard good reviews. It stores all your passwords in a file on your computer, and requires a master password to open. Good stuff, I think.



OMG BARBARIAN STYLE

Write all your passwords on a piece of paper and put it on your desk, easily viewable. It's safe to say that unless the hacker can double as a ninja, you probably won't be in danger of getting hacked. To help with this revolutionary system of protection, I've found this:

http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/

That beauty will generate passwords for you, which you can then write down on some pretty stationary!

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Please remember, there is danger present everywhere. Do your best to protect yourself from it.

Your friendly Security Administrator,(not really)
Serendipitous