An Introduction to the Browser Master Password
Not so long ago, things were painless online – you often had just a single password to remember for your email account. These days however, it’s not remarkable to have dozens of passwords created for countless web services you’ve joined. So what happens? Many individuals are inclined to utilize the same password over and over. Some people may not consider their Facebook photo gallery as being hugely important, but it is if you’re applying the same password for that as you are for your WorldPay account. For sure, it’s handy to only have to remember just one password, but what happens if a hacker gets hold of that one password? You guessed it, they in theory have access to all of your accounts that share that very same password. And if you think they can’t know what other services you’ve signed up to, it isn’t required. They can run web application programs which screen literally tens of thousands of online services and try to match your account name/password pair that they already have.
This is an issue we all have to address, but it is rather easily solved. In actual fact, you don’t need to remember each and every account name/password. Let your browser do it. Be it your Bebo sign in or Email password. Just ask your web browser to remember each username/password, and then have a central password (“master password”) just in case an intruder else gets physical access to your computer. Physical access to your computer will still require knowing the master password to gain access to all the other passwords. Or to put it another way, you can join dozens of web services, and merely need to actually remember one password : your master password for your browser.
When making passwords, make them long and random, for example 8JJJfrfrt65K which is an assortment of lower and upper case characters and numbers. As you don’t need to remember them, be as random as you wish. Whatever you do, don’t use dictionary phrases as a password, as these are easy to identify for hackers.
