r/mildlyinfuriating • u/King_Baboon • Mar 08 '16

Overdone Fuck it, hackers win.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

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u/King_Baboon Mar 08 '16

The government site has two 2nd party password generator sites as links to "help" but the passwords they generate you have to either write down or copy and paste on notepad.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16 edited Jun 08 '16

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u/Endulos Mar 08 '16

Holy fuck do I love Keepass. It's so god damn handy.

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u/MickMcSnuggles Mar 08 '16

Question. Is it safe though? Can I trust with my bank account or PayPal?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

I highly doubt his IA section would approve of some third-party app storing his account credentials for a government website. Don't think you could sound more stupid than that honestly. At least for the DoD.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

The fuck are you on about? I'm telling you as someone who works for the government why your suggestion doesn't apply to the person you SPECIFICALLY applied it to. There is no "in general" to this context.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

General question: How much different Keepass is from LastPass?

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u/YM_Industries Mar 09 '16

The rules in the screenshot would mean that there's a decent chance the generator would produce something that this wouldn't accept.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '16

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u/YM_Industries Mar 09 '16

I would expect that it could generate duplicate letters too.

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u/prettycode Mar 09 '16

Can it synchronize between my living room laptop, my home office desktop, my work laptop, and my mobile phone?