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as usual for Google or Facebook. | 3,661.23 | 1.74 |
But that password is not given to this
new website or this third-party website | 3,662.97 | 6.06 |
you're visiting, rather
using a technique | 3,669.03 | 2.25 |
known as cryptography and encryption
and some fancy math, essentially. | 3,671.28 | 4.05 |
The username with which
you log in is sent back | 3,675.33 | 4.35 |
to this third-party website,
but not your password, just | 3,679.68 | 3.36 |
a confirmation that yes, David's
successfully logged into Google, | 3,683.04 | 3.69 |
or David successfully
logged into Facebook. | 3,686.73 | 2.1 |
Therefore you can trust that his
username is malan@harvard.edu, | 3,688.83 | 5.1 |
or whatever it is I typed
in, to log in there. | 3,693.93 | 3.55 |
So using single sign on
benefits not only you | 3,697.48 | 3.44 |
potentially but also the
website or application | 3,700.92 | 2.7 |
by making it easier for you to register
and/or log in subsequently as well. | 3,703.62 | 6.07 |
Now, where does this
leave us ultimately? | 3,709.69 | 2.81 |
Some of you might already
be thinking, well, | 3,712.5 | 1.93 |
what about using a password manager? | 3,714.43 | 1.76 |
And some of you might be thinking,
what is a password manager? | 3,716.19 | 2.67 |
So let's emphasize this
one perhaps the most. | 3,718.86 | 2.73 |
Increasingly, best practice
is to use a piece of software | 3,721.59 | 5.01 |
that manages your passwords for you. | 3,726.6 | 2.332 |
Thankfully, there's going to be
an even better solution than this | 3,728.932 | 2.708 |
on the horizon. | 3,731.64 | 1.03 |
But for now, minimally, if you're
not using a password manager, | 3,732.67 | 3.72 |
you probably should be. | 3,736.39 | 1.46 |
If you're using the same password
on multiple sites or applications, | 3,737.85 | 3.57 |
and thus you're vulnerable
to credential stuffing, | 3,741.42 | 2.49 |
you should probably be
using a password manager | 3,743.91 | 2.22 |
instead so that you can
change all of those accounts | 3,746.13 | 2.46 |
to have unique passwords. | 3,748.59 | 1.59 |
But this piece of software
known as a password manager | 3,750.18 | 2.67 |
can remember those passwords for you. | 3,752.85 | 2.79 |
If you are in the habit of choosing
very easy passwords because it's | 3,755.64 | 3.6 |
just better for you to
remember, you should probably | 3,759.24 | 2.31 |
start using a password manager because
beyond remembering your passwords, | 3,761.55 | 3.66 |
these password managers also make
it easy to generate new passwords. | 3,765.21 | 4.05 |
You click a button,
and essentially it will | 3,769.26 | 1.98 |
generate a password that's
however short or long that you | 3,771.24 | 2.79 |
want with some uppercase,
lowercase, symbols, numbers, | 3,774.03 | 3.27 |
whatever it is a website requires. | 3,777.3 | 1.98 |
It will just generate it for you. | 3,779.28 | 1.95 |
And better yet, it will then save
that generated password for you. | 3,781.23 | 3.85 |
So you the human do not
need to memorize it, | 3,785.08 | 1.867 |
and you the human certainly
don't need to write it | 3,786.947 | 2.083 |
down on a post-it note or any
the other file somewhere else. | 3,789.03 | 3.66 |
So password managers
literally do just that. | 3,792.69 | 2.54 |
And they have even more
features than that. | 3,795.23 | 2.25 |
Generally, if you're
using a password manager | 3,797.48 | 2.4 |
and you go visit a website for
the second time or the third time, | 3,799.88 | 3.84 |
you can typically hit an
automatic keystroke that | 3,803.72 | 3.39 |
will just automatically log you in. | 3,807.11 | 1.6 |
It will fill in your
username and your password. | 3,808.71 | 2 |
But better yet, it will
only do so if you're | 3,810.71 | 3.75 |
on the real gmail.com or the real
facebook.com or the real paypal.com. | 3,814.46 | 6.12 |
These password managers also remember
the URL at which you created or last | 3,820.58 | 5.46 |
used that username and password
so that if you are somehow subject | 3,826.04 | 3.96 |
to a phishing attack-- you've been
tricked into clicking a link and going | 3,830 | 3.725 |
to a website that looks like
Google looks, like Facebook, | 3,833.725 | 2.375 |
but actually isn't-- the password
manager will ignore your keystrokes | 3,836.1 | 4.43 |
and not actually log you in, pasting
into that form your actual username | 3,840.53 | 4.92 |
and password because it doesn't
recognize that same URL. | 3,845.45 | 3.36 |
So there are a lot of upsides
of these password managers. | 3,848.81 | 3.54 |
The one catch is that the onus is on you
to remember one primary password that | 3,852.35 | 8.01 |
protects your password manager itself. | 3,860.36 | 2.97 |
That is to say, if this is
a piece of software that | 3,863.33 | 2.28 |
stores all of the dozens, hundreds,
thousands of usernames and passwords | 3,865.61 | 4.74 |
that you have, you are putting
proverbially all of your eggs | 3,870.35 | 3.66 |
in one basket, so to speak. | 3,874.01 | 2.04 |
That is you want to protect this
password manager with probably the best | 3,876.05 | 4.98 |
password you've ever come up with. | 3,881.03 | 2.28 |
This should probably be long. | 3,883.31 | 1.77 |
It should have some complexity. | 3,885.08 | 2.04 |
It should be a little
annoying perhaps to type | 3,887.12 | 2.28 |
in because you don't want an
adversary to get in and get access | 3,889.4 | 3.69 |
to everything else. | 3,893.09 | 1.17 |
But it's just one
password that we're really | 3,894.26 | 2.55 |
asking you to pick really
well and reasonably long | 3,896.81 | 3.72 |
so that you're protecting
everything else. | 3,900.53 | 3.18 |
Now, these password managers
are a little different | 3,903.71 | 3.24 |
than what you're probably
familiar with in your own browser. | 3,906.95 | 2.73 |
It's been common for years for browsers
to remember your username and password | 3,909.68 | 4.2 |
by just showing you, like, bullets
like, dot, dot, dot, in the form field. | 3,913.88 | 3.22 |
So you can just hit Enter. | 3,917.1 | 1.13 |
That's fine. | 3,918.23 | 0.96 |
But that information is often
associated only with that one browser. | 3,919.19 | 4.17 |
It doesn't propagate to your phone or
another device that you're logged into. | 3,923.36 | 4.26 |
It's not easy to share
it with someone else | 3,927.62 | 1.828 |
if you have a family account, for
instance, or something like that. | 3,929.448 | 2.792 |
So password managers often offer
additional features beyond that | 3,932.24 | 4.62 |
and really protect all of
the things that you're using, | 3,936.86 | 2.94 |
and also help you generate
those same passwords. | 3,939.8 | 2.46 |
Fortunately, thankfully nowadays,
these are increasingly standard. | 3,942.26 | 4.38 |
There are third-party options that
you can find online or even purchase. | 3,946.64 | 4.75 |
But they're increasingly built into
our own operating systems, which | 3,951.39 | 3.38 |
if I had to choose, especially
for a less-technical audience, | 3,954.77 | 2.76 |
using what comes with your computer
from the major manufacturers | 3,957.53 | 3.51 |
is probably a good thing
as opposed to going | 3,961.04 | 3.21 |
third party unless third parties
offer you additional features | 3,964.25 | 3.12 |
that might be especially beneficial
in companies and families or the like. | 3,967.37 | 3.67 |
So Apple has what they call their iCloud
Keychain via which you can not only | 3,971.04 | 4.25 |
save passwords on one device,
they can propagate securely | 3,975.29 | 4.02 |
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