![]() ![]() But now if I were to click on 1Password it would not come up with anything because it doesn't have a stored password for, so it prevents me from entering my Twitter password into a site that's not. They may have even designed the site to look exactly like the shopping site I want to go to. So I'm being tricked into going to the wrong website. I'm in fact at this domain with this being the sub domain. Now you can see how if I got this in an email and I glanced at my address bar I would see and think I'm at the right place. Suppose I was tricked by an email to go to /. I'm here at on the log-in page, I go to 1Password and there's fill and submit Twitter. For instance let's take Twitter for example. Well 1Password will not let you enter in that password if it's the wrong site. So for instance say you get an email for great bargains at a shopping site you go to all the time, click on the link, and it says oh enter in your password for this shopping site. ![]() Now one of the most important things 1Password does is it protects you for phishing attacks. but also if a website asks you, would you like me to store your credit card number for future use you can say no thanks, knowing that you can easily enter it in again using 1Password instead of having them store it on their server, where it could be compromised. The reason this is great is because you don't have to remember those credit card numbers or pull it out of your wallet. So it stores it in that encrypted file and allows you to enter in into a payment page on a website. Now inside of 1Password you can see in addition to log-ins you've got a wallet and you can add something like a credit card or bank account to that wallet, and put all your credit card information in here. 1Password takes care of that problem by encrypting that data. The important thing here is that a lot of people store their passwords, so they remember them, say in a text file or some other file that's easily accessible if somebody were to steal or get access to your computer. Somebody else takes that file, they can't use it at all. Now 1Password is storing those securely in a file, an encrypted file, so unless you've entered your 1Password password to get into that, you can't get into it. Use the Strong Password Generator here, and it will give me options for a strong password, I can even make it pronounceable if I wanted to, or change the number of random digits and symbols in there. And say I want to do a new password, I can use 1Password for that as well. Without 1Password I would have to retype all those passwords all the time, which means I'd probably want to keep them short and something I can remember, and perhaps reuse passwords across different accounts, which makes them all less secure. This allows me to create a secure password for Twitter, a different one for Facebook, a different one for any service that I sign up for online. I had previously entered in my 1Password password to give me access to all that data, so it doesn't ask me for that specific password. ![]() So the important thing that happened there is I was able to sign into Twitter without having to type in my user name and password because it was stored in 1Password in an encrypted file. I'm gonna save it as Twitter, and then want to sign back in I can go to the 1Password button, hit fill and submit Twitter, and you can see it automatically put in my user name and password in there and I've signed in. I'm gonna use this sample Twitter account to sign into twitter, I'll enter my password, hit sign in, I want to tell Safari not to use auto fill here because I'm gonna use 1Password instead, and you see here I've signed in now and now it says do you want to save this login in 1Password? So it automatically recognizes that I've entered something in that it doesn't know about and it asks if I want to save it, I don't have to actually go to 1Password and enter this in separately. So once you've installed 1Password you have this 1Password button here, in other browsers you have similar things. Let me give you the reasons why you really should have this. It stores all of my online passwords in an encrypted file and allows me to use them as I go to those different websites. So 1Password is one of my must have Mac tools. On today's episode let me show you why you should be using 1Password. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. ![]()
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