Relying on Google Password Manager risks turning what may be your most vital account into a single point of failure should you forget your Google password and get locked out.Īmong competing password managers, Bitwarden stands out for a free tier without serious usage limits, plus low rates of $10 a year for individuals and $40 a year for families. But each has hang-ups.Īpple’s iCloud Keychain works in Windows with its new Chrome extension, but it ignores Android and Chromebooks. Two particularly easy free alternatives come from Apple and Google, both with the helpful feature of automatic warnings about weak, reused or exposed passwords. “If you adopt a password manager, you don’t have to think about coming up with unique and strong passwords anymore and you don’t have to figure out how you are going to remember them.” “I don’t know anyone who thinks they can keep complex and different passwords memorized,” emailed Lorrie Cranor, director of the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
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