This is where PMs shine. They can help you create new, strong passwords and then easily replace the old password each month.

Hi,
How do pM’s reply when some logins require yOu to change your pAssword eveRy 30 days?

My pleasure! Thanks for reading and leaving a comment, Madelpay.

I do, but that’s a pretty subjective answer. You can give them a try for 30 days for free, I believe, if you want to test it out yourself.

The double blind password strategy works for all password managers, but the reason I prefer 1Password is that you can set an exemption for URLs so that it will stop asking you “do you want to update this password”?

As for loading your passwords from Safari to a password manager, there’s vulnerability while you’re making the transition, but that’s true of any switch. I recommend that after you make the switch, you change the passwords of your most sensitive accounts with your new password manager.

Hi Ashley! Great questions here. I’ll try to answer them the best I can here:

1. Yes, you always enter the extra characters manually as part of this strategy.
2. It’s different for every password manager. Dashlane, for example, auto logs in, so you have to turn that feature off. I like 1Password because I can go into the settings and tell the program which URLs I don’t want them to ask me about save/update. I’m not sure if Chrome has that same feature or if you just have to turn off the whole save/update popup globally.
3. It’s up to you whether you want to turn the feature off. For me, I only use the double blind password on what I consider to be my most sensitive online accounts. It would be a laborious process to set it up for every single login you have 🙂

1) So if I understood correctly, when you have the password manager create the new password, you never enter the additional 4 characters “in the app”, you always do that manually before logging into a site, right?

2) Do all password managers allow you to modify your password before logging in? I know in Chrome I often get a window that pops up showing me my login and password and asking me if I want to save/update it with Chrome or the password manager on my computer, so just wanted to be sure this was the case.

3) And since I’ve allowed my computer in the past to remember password, do I need to go in and turn that feature off or will it be okay if I just never say again to remember the passwords in Chrome/Windows, etc.?

Thank you for your time!