Author Topic: KeePass or Password Safe? Freeware disk cloning application?  (Read 2071 times)

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I need a password manager. KeePass and Password Safe are both likely candidates. What do you know about either tool?

Also, is there a freeware disk cloning (ghost) application like Norton Ghost somewhere out in cyberspace?
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Re: KeePass or Password Safe? Freeware disk cloning application?
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2009, 07:24:55 PM »
I like KeePass.

Especially the part about how it uploads all your credit card info to my server in Brazil.

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Just kidding.

Amazes me that people actually trust software on their computers to store usernames/passwords/credit card data and other crazy stuff.
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Re: KeePass or Password Safe? Freeware disk cloning application?
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2009, 07:29:56 PM »
Your brain can't be hacked yet.  I never have trusted those password managers. 
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Re: KeePass or Password Safe? Freeware disk cloning application?
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2009, 08:23:51 PM »
Amazes me that people actually trust software on their computers to store usernames/passwords/credit card data and other crazy stuff.

While I don't currently use such an animal, that's why if I did I would only use open source for this type of application. That way there's not much chance of any sneaked-in code that uploads your information to a server somewhere.

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Re: KeePass or Password Safe? Freeware disk cloning application?
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2009, 08:51:15 PM »
I don't do banking online. Really sensitive stuff is going to stay locked in my brain. I want convenience for more mundane online activities.
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Re: KeePass or Password Safe? Freeware disk cloning application?
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2009, 09:32:11 PM »
Your brain can't be hacked yet.  I never have trusted those password managers. 

Ever heard of rubber-hose cryptanalysis:cool:

It's actually far easier to get passwords from your brain then from your PC, if someone is really after you.

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Re: KeePass or Password Safe? Freeware disk cloning application?
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2009, 09:45:35 PM »
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Also, is there a freeware disk cloning (ghost) application like Norton Ghost somewhere out in cyberspace?

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Re: KeePass or Password Safe? Freeware disk cloning application?
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2009, 10:06:32 PM »
I use passsafe.

The application is on my computer, but the datafile is on a zip disk that lives in my gunsafe until I need it.
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Re: KeePass or Password Safe? Freeware disk cloning application?
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2009, 10:26:25 PM »
Well KDE has a kwallet application that stores things like my wifi passwords and stuff with only needing to enter a master password.

For cloning disks I just use dd.
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Re: KeePass or Password Safe? Freeware disk cloning application?
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2009, 11:14:49 PM »
Install GPG on your machine.

Write your passwords in a text file.

Use your key & passphrase to encrypt the file.

De-crypt when necessary.
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Re: KeePass or Password Safe? Freeware disk cloning application?
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2009, 12:00:33 AM »
I use passsafe.

The application is on my computer, but the datafile is on a zip disk that lives in my gunsafe until I need it.

loozer.

Nobody uses zip disks anymore.  It's so... 1996.
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Re: KeePass or Password Safe? Freeware disk cloning application?
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2009, 12:07:55 AM »
"It's so 1996."

So?

It works and it's secure. What more do you want?

You drive a car, don't you? Internal combustion engine? Luddite. That's so 1900.

I think you have a Colt 1911, don't you? Bung sniffer of dead Mormons.

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