I considered doing that too; however, there are some advantages to using a piece of software designed for the task. I use "password safe" -- open source (sourceforge) and it has some convenient features.
I don't place any sort of complete trust in anti-virus software in catching anything specific. I only place trust in its ability to catch virii that are infecting multiple computers in which case the chance it has the intention of specifically stealing my personal information isn't as high. I seriously doubt anyone would bother to custom-make a virus just to get my personal information. I'm fully aware of that flaw of anti-virus software in its weakness in finding new things not included in a definition file. I don't use it as any sort of safeguard for that. If I truly had information that was so valuable that I think someone would go to such lengths to get it, I would bother to specifically open and close ports as necessary on my firewall as such to minimize any worm coming in from that angle. Someone could always physically access my computer and install something, but if I saw any danger, I would use some sort of encrypted file system, but as I stated in my previous post, I don't see any real danger.
I keep my passwords on my computer, but in an encrypted database. I don't know of any safer way to manage my passwords and user accounts for countless web sites and pieces of software.
The only potential downsides to this threat are two-fold. One, a hacker could install a keylogger on my machine. I find that unlikely as I keep my anti-virus software up to date and I don't receive any spam or virus emails since they are all filtered. It is possible that one could install via a worm, but unlikely that it would go undetected for long.
Second, someone could break the encryption used on the database. I find that doubtful since it's pretty high-level encryption and the amount of effort to crack it would not be trivial.
The primary issue I see above is whether the value of the information exceeds the potential effort in obtaining it. I really doubt anyone would ever want my personal information thus I see the value of my information as being far lower than the difficulty needed to obtain it.
For a legal free version of splashID check out:
http://gnukeyring.sourceforge.net
Not as many bells and whistles, but it still uses a form of encryption and has a conduit
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I considered doing that too; however, there are some advantages to using a piece of software designed for the task. I use "password safe" -- open source (sourceforge) and it has some convenient features.
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
I don't place any sort of complete trust in anti-virus software in catching anything specific. I only place trust in its ability to catch virii that are infecting multiple computers in which case the chance it has the intention of specifically stealing my personal information isn't as high. I seriously doubt anyone would bother to custom-make a virus just to get my personal information. I'm fully aware of that flaw of anti-virus software in its weakness in finding new things not included in a definition file. I don't use it as any sort of safeguard for that. If I truly had information that was so valuable that I think someone would go to such lengths to get it, I would bother to specifically open and close ports as necessary on my firewall as such to minimize any worm coming in from that angle. Someone could always physically access my computer and install something, but if I saw any danger, I would use some sort of encrypted file system, but as I stated in my previous post, I don't see any real danger.
I keep my passwords on my computer, but in an encrypted database. I don't know of any safer way to manage my passwords and user accounts for countless web sites and pieces of software.
The only potential downsides to this threat are two-fold. One, a hacker could install a keylogger on my machine. I find that unlikely as I keep my anti-virus software up to date and I don't receive any spam or virus emails since they are all filtered. It is possible that one could install via a worm, but unlikely that it would go undetected for long.
Second, someone could break the encryption used on the database. I find that doubtful since it's pretty high-level encryption and the amount of effort to crack it would not be trivial.
The primary issue I see above is whether the value of the information exceeds the potential effort in obtaining it. I really doubt anyone would ever want my personal information thus I see the value of my information as being far lower than the difficulty needed to obtain it.
Most people say fillet as "fill-it"
on the east coast too at about 40 minutes into the show for those with Tivo's.
I wonder why they went out of business
For a legal free version of splashID check out: http://gnukeyring.sourceforge.net Not as many bells and whistles, but it still uses a form of encryption and has a conduit