{"id":51330,"date":"2015-06-01T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/google-offers-to-manage-all-your-passwords.html"},"modified":"2015-06-01T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:36:03","slug":"google-offers-to-manage-all-your-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/google-offers-to-manage-all-your-passwords.html","title":{"rendered":"Google offers to manage all your passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like Google. I even largely trust Google. But, honestly, I don't see myself switching away from LastPass any time soon, even though the latter costs money.<\/i><\/p>\n

1. While I have little doubt that Google's new password manager will be pretty cool, LastPass functionality is mature and continuing to improve. Google has a ways to catch up.<\/p>\n

2. This ties me to the Googleverse even more tightly. In theory, I could abandon Chrome and go back to Firefox or (shudder) IE, and LastPass would continue to work for me.<\/p>\n

3. If someone gets access to my Google account, they have access to everything, including all my passwords elsewhere — in this scheme. LastPass, as a different vendor, is one more barrier they would have to breach. Security monocultures are not safe.<\/p>\n

That said, we'll see what tune I'm singing in a year or two.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Lifehacker<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Google's password manager is getting pretty serious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nGoogle Smart Lock Saves Your Passwords, Logs In on Chrome and Android<\/a><\/span>
\nGoogle already has many features to make it easier to manage the bajillion passwords you have. With an upcoming release of Google Play Services, the company will be introducing a feature called Smart Lock that can store your passwords for third-party services and log into them across devices.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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