Is It Secure?

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Is It Secure?

#1 Post by greybeard » Tue May 29, 2018 8:47 pm

I am always wary when an internet service provider wants to store your password on some cloud or elsewhere.

What are your thoughts?

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Re: Is It Secure?

#2 Post by Outbackdad » Wed May 30, 2018 12:27 pm

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Re: Is It Secure?

#3 Post by perry » Wed May 30, 2018 11:38 pm

I have allowed google to store my Passwords for some Forums and never had an issue. Obviously when it comes to online banking etc not on your nelly !
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Re: Is It Secure?

#4 Post by little arrows » Thu May 31, 2018 7:07 pm

I have only had that message come up for me since I changed my browser to Chrome (or it could just be part of the Windows 10 upgrades too I guess) anyhoo, I'm the same as Perry, I only use it to store some of the forum passwords, nothing else. Just keep answering Never, or perhaps there's a function in the setting of our individual browsers that stops it coming up....

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Re: Is It Secure?

#5 Post by RobHunter » Fri Jun 01, 2018 11:34 pm

Windows 10 (ie Edge app) its in settings>Advanced settings

As per picture

I hate using google chrome - so I cant help you specifically with any settings in that.
I find it is invasive and clashes with a lot of other programs I use.

Hope that helps.

btw most financial services pages don't allow you to save passwords using edge or Firefox. Again not known if Chrome does.

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Re: Is It Secure?

#6 Post by greybeard » Sat Jun 02, 2018 3:14 pm

Thank you for your replies.

I shall keep passwords to myself because once they are in some ones data base [such as Google] they can be part of the jigsaw that could be used and shared to build a profile of a user.

Daryl.
"And you must not stick for a groat or twelvepence more than another man would give, if it be a good bow.
For a good bow twice paid for, is better than an ill bow once broken.
[Ascham]

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” [Einstein]

I am old enough to make my own decisions....Just not young enough to remember what I decided!....

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