But because of the way strong encryption works, nobody has a backup route into my password archive. By presenting myself at a 1Password office and taking a blood test and somehow proving I deserved a second chance. Through a special emergency physical key fob. I wish there were some magical way I could recover my 1Password password. My only recourse is to wipe everything and start over. If you lose the password to your password manager, the password manager customer service can't do anything for you. However, the 1Password support page says "you can't recover your own account," and you would need a family organizer or team administrator to help you. 1Password's customer service was able to tell me I had added nine new passwords, but couldn't tell me which accounts they were for.ġPassword does offer an option for your family or team members to recover your account if you forgot your password, can't find your secret key or need to reset two-factor authentication. But I didn't recover passwords I'd added after updating to the 1Password subscription.
I recovered those when I tried installing the app on another device. I discovered some of my passwords via a separate cloud-synced 1Password vault I'd forgotten that I had. Why didn't I keep a backup record on paper? Many passwords are locked up in there, but I don't remember which. Also, I'm filled with existential dread now. Maybe it's because I was panicking when I signed up for the subscription in the first place, late last year.
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You can also explore all the reasons you seriously need a password manager and how 1Password compares to LassPass, another popular password manager.ĭid I lose that emergency kit? Did I never download it? What is wrong with me? How did this happen? I wish I could tell you. For a broader look at the situation, check CNET's coverage about password problems - including more about why experts recommend the very password managers that got me in trouble, the reasons two-factor authentication isn't as secure as you might hope and modernized advice for picking passwords. I'm not the only person suffering from password problems. Once your passwords become sufficiently complicated, you won't really know what the passwords are unless you're writing them down. But then, of course, you need a password for that password manager. Ideally, you should be creating so many unique, complicated passwords that a password manager is the only safe direction. My problem is partly a consequence of today's need for an endless supply of secure passwords. Can I explain how I entered this fugue state of password confusion? Not at all. And I realized suddenly that the master password being asked for wasn't the same as the password I had been using previously, before I added the subscription.
It had been working smoothly with my iPhone's Face ID to unlock access to my passwords, but that stopped working after a phone reboot. Then came the weekend that I tried logging into the app and found my password wasn't working. I chose the 1Password password manager and after installing it, upgraded to a subscription so I could access my passwords across multiple devices. I took the basic security advice: use a password manager and then have it create different passwords for each site. I did something really stupid with some of the most important data in my life two years ago. If you still aren't using a password manager, CNET recommends Bitwarden. We're rerunning it today in honor of World Password Day. Editor's note, May 4, 2022: This commentary originally ran in March 2020.
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