Thinking about storing sensitive data on the web??

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Paul N

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Then read this!

Twitter hacked

"Some analysts say the breach highlights how dangerous it can be for people and companies to store confidential documents on Web servers, or “in the cloud.”

At least, make sure you have a really good password: 12-15 characters long, a mix of upper, lower cases and special characters and you might be safe. Something like: ZAG^jog45tyE0fay
Here's an online password generator: http://www.onlinepasswordgenerator.com/
 
Generators scare me.

Couldn't the same website track your ip location, determine who you are and start targeting the sites you visit in order to apply those generated passwords?
 
janetj1968 said:
Generators scare me.

Couldn't the same website track your ip location, determine who you are and start targeting the sites you visit in order to apply those generated passwords?
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Sure. Just make sure to change / add more characters to it!

You could also download your own generator and run it on your PC.
 
Steve Gibson has a password generator. He is a trusted security researcher (and even discovered and coined the term spyware). I would trust his website much more than some chinsey looking password generator site.

https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

This does underscore the problem of storing sensitive data online. The only safe way to do it is to encrypt it using a strong cipher, and a long, high entropy key that only you know (not stored online anywhere).
 
I agree with Steve. Steve Gibson is one of the top guys in the IT industry and most knowledgeable. He created lots of the best software the last 20+ years.

I trust him and his software implicitly.
 
I use Roboform to save my passwords on my computer. It also has a password generator, and you can customize the length, types of characters (upper case alpha, lower case alpha, numeric, special) the minimum number of digits and whether you want to exclude similar characters. It even shows you the resulting bit strength. It's really handy when a site puts restrictions on the configuration of you password.
 
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