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Crushed under the weight of passwords

I don’t know about you but I have a lot of passwords to remember and at the ripe old age of…mumble mumble…it’s getting harder and harder to remember them all. How many of us write our passwords down on a piece of paper, in a word document on our computer, or in some other open device only to go home and watch as the hacker hero of the latest movie takes 3 seconds to open a drawer or computer file, get the written master password for the system, and take down the evil CEO winning the romantic interest in the end? Why would you have a secure system if the passwords are so easy to find?
Enter Password Safe. Originally developed by computer security specialist Bruce Schneier, dozens of passwords are stored electronically behind one master password. Each item can be sorted by category for easy accessibility AND the product can generate a random, harder to crack, password.
Now of course, with every great system that’s out there, there are probably ways to break it and get the information because nothing is ever 100% secure. However, Password Safe can make it that much harder to get in.
Just don’t store that master password for Password Safe on a sheet of paper in your desk drawer.