# Password management software recommendations?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-management-software-recommendations/602439>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 9, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-management-software-recommendations/602439 "2011-11-09T23:15:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-management-software-recommendations/602439/21 "2011-11-17T14:38:19Z")

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> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#):
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> First, you would have to get hold of my iPod, and try it there.  
> Once you did, and I got my iPod back, or got a new one, I would just have to backup all the passwords from the copy on my PC, which is also password protected.

Yep - in our case with 1Password, they’d have to crack the main iPod PIN, the 1Password PIN, _and_ the complex master password. With yours, they’d have to manage your iPod PIN and the vault PIN/passord.

Not to mention: the owner isn’t locked out of the _accounts_, just doesn’t know the passwords to them. All of my online accounts have password reset procedures. It’d be a pain in the ass, but doable.

Other features of 1Password and I suspect most of the other tools as well: you can have it generate a random password for you - specifying upper/lower, numbers/mixed, special characters etc. And you can store things like library card numbers, driver’s license numbers, etc. Having used it for over a yeare now, I wonder howinhell I ever got along without it.

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**Author:** ![JMLVT68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@JMLVT68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JMLVT68)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-management-software-recommendations/602439/22 "2011-11-17T18:19:34Z")

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> [@Uzi](#):
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> [SplashID](http://www.splashdata.com/splashid/)
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> I’ve used it for years originally on Palm and now on Android. It syncs wirelessly with the desktop app. I’ve got hundreds of passwords on it.

I’ll give SplashID a +1 here. Use the desktop version on my WinXP laptop at work, sync wirelessly to my iPhone (which I sync for music and apps to my home iMac). Simple, clean, not that expensive (although you do need to buy both mobile and desktop versions separately). A big selling point for me, IIRC, was that I could IMPORT a bunch of data I had exported from a previous password manager on an old Palm OS device.

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