However, for each of these I then wanted to search my passwords (to find duplicates, a common issue). I wanted to view all logins with warnings, which was only accessible via the “Security Dashboard”. The deletion of obviously outdated / irrelevant accounts in the previous step helped quite a lot, bumping the security score up to 82.1%! However, we can do much better than that…Īgain I found myself fighting with LastPass’ interface a bit here.
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Luckily this is only a one-time process, as having to repeat this process regularly would be impossible! Password list Grouping these into categories took MUCH longer than it should have (multiple hours), due to LastPass’ somewhat unresponsive site. So domain management, programming resources, university, etc. Utility: Electricity, gas, water, phone, internet, etc.Travel: All the hotel / airline / train accounts that end up being created during travelling.Shopping: Amazon, eBay, supermarkets, hardware, etc.Personal: Healthcare services, pet care services, piracy sites(!).Online: Services that you “need” a login to when using the internet.Gaming: Steam, Epic Games, various sites with unique logins.Financial: Banking, investment, property purchases, etc.Android: Logins for apps, these are in a format unlike all other logins and were deleted later.I went for the following fairly generic categories: This way the list will become more manageable, easier to maintain, and I can clear out duplicates as I go. Password listįirst, I wanted to group all my passwords by category. So, the next step is tidying up the passwords into something more useful. 74.4% is pretty low, however I was pretty confident this was actually due to duplicated / bad data. Now all the passwords have been imported, we can use LastPass’ “Security score” to determine roughly how secure we are.
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I encountered a few “broken” passwords, where an Android app’s package name & password had been transferred, but this isn’t LastPass’ fault! Post-import state LastPass handles this pretty smoothly, even with 1000 passwords. Open LastPass → Advanced Options → Import → Chrome.Go to Google Password Manager’s options.Luckily, LastPass is ready for Chrome’s password file format, so this process is very simple: I generally used the default settings, and whilst I would have appreciated a little more guidance on which options were more secure, nothing was impossible to Google. To start with, I installed LastPass’ Chrome extension 1 and Android app 2.
However, I need to get my 1000+ Chrome passwords over there… Migrating to LastPass It might not be the cheapest, but $3 vs $5 per month really isn’t much for a comfortable password management experience! I went for LastPass as it was very highly rated, easy to use, and supported all operating systems I work on. As such, I decided it was time to finally migrate to a “proper” solution. Whilst my Google account is secure, can I really be as confident in my personal machine / phone, both of which have access to all those passwords at any time? Probably not. However, a lot of sites still don’t support 2FA, so all it would take to compromise an unknown number of my accounts is one bit of malware. I almost always use unique passwords, always use 2FA, and even use a unique email per service (so the source of any spam emails can be identified).
BackstoryĬonsidering how much of my life is online, and how security conscious I am, using Chrome’s Password Manager was always a guilty secret. As you might expect, after 14 years I built up a lot of saved passwords (1000+)! However, migration to a proper solution is long overdue, here’s how I did it and tidied up my passwords at the same time. I’ve been using Chrome since its 2008 release, and rely on the password manager daily.
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