Comments on: Happy National Identity Fraud Prevention Week

By: Fantacy

Fantacy — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:52:11 +0000

This kind of situation you mentioned is really getting worse,especially here in China. Most of the people who always surfs the Internet has the experience of losing their Internet account or password. As the Internet has expended in recent years, cybercrime has also. Your products are always good, easy to use, and have a nice interface! I’m using NewsBreak now! Always support you! Also thank you for making such effort to protecting people’ PASSWPRDS!;)

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By: Geoffrey Campey

Geoffrey Campey — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:11:00 +0000

I’m the worst for this: I have a 6-digit all-lowercase password that is a person’s real-name that I have been using since 1997. Admittedly I use it for accounts that I don’t use for anything that will cause problems if someone hacks it, but still. As for more important details such as net banking, I’m lucky that at work my company has a policy that the passwords have to be changed every 8 weeks. Whenever I have to change my passwords for work, I use that wonderful little Passbuilder thats bundled with eWallet and create new passwords for my net banking and other sensitive passwords. Then I just cut and paste into ewallet and I’m ready to go.

This is particularly important for me because I do a lot of travelling and end up having to use sensitive passwords on unsecured net connections (and even net cafes!) so its great for me to have a nice system in place to combat my inherent laziness.

By: shinyplastic

shinyplastic — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:07:42 +0000

Perhaps eWallet should (optionally) track and remind users to change passwords? I also like some sites / programs graphical representation of password security red (weak) to yellow (OK) to green (strong). I realise its not for all, but it might remind some their passwords are very weak.

There is also the flip side of fully encrypted passwords (I honestly only know one password and a few PIN numbers, eWallet has EVERYTHING randomly generated – I just copy and paste) … but if that file every got corrupted or lost … I can’t imagine the consequences

Incrementally copy all encrypted files _regularly_ … Don’t just syncronise them to an external HD, if you corrupt the original and then sync (well you can guess the result). It’s often impossible to recover an encrypted file/disk, as one corruption can render the file unreadable (I am sure eWallet takes every precaution opening/closing to minimise the risk!). So as well an encrypting your life .. BACK IT UP!!

By: i-bystander

i-bystander — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:14:19 +0000

How about half off ListPro?

By: NewsBreaker

NewsBreaker — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:30:05 +0000

Those habits sound too familiar to me as well. It taes some time and discipline to keep things secure, and the threat just doesn’t seem looming at times, although I know it’s real and ID theft could cause some real headaches and wallet breaks.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:48:26 +0000

Now if only I had a solution for my iPhone to have a decent wallet app … (hint hint).

Pretty soon you lovely folk on that side of the pond will have the iPhone too … and complex passwords will be a thing of the past since there’s no way to keep track of them one you pickup the iPhone.

I’d love to go back to using WM – but I just can’t do it. It’s like going from Windows XP to Windows ME. You just wanna throw it out the window after about 5 minutes

Thanks for cutting 1/2 off the price though!! If I didn’t already own it I’d be buying it right now!

By: Don

Don — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:31:56 +0000

I’m ashamed that I do most of those things. I’m trying eWallet now. I need some new habits.

By: Mark Jones

Mark Jones — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:24:00 +0000

How Weird. This morning I was just thinking about how vulnerable all my online banking was and how I needed to buy eWallet. (I’m serious!) The days tasks (kept by listpro ) made me forget until I read the blog. And Lo and behold, eWallet is half price!

And you are right about security. I’ve been lax and many others have too and have paid for it. I feel much, much better now!

Thanks very much,
Mark