It is dangerous to use “remember me” of your IE or FireFox

There are tools to recover most of your ‘remembered’ passwords. You can use them if you forgot your ‘remembered’ passwords, and so can anyone with access to your machine. Aren’t they dangerous?

Yes of course you can.

It’s an important lesson about just how dangerous it is to use ‘remember me’.

Why? Because if you can recover it, then anyone who has access to the machine can probably recover it too.

‘Remember my password’ doesn’t seem like such a good idea anymore, now does it?
When you choose ‘Remember my password’, or any equivalent

 Your passwords are saved somewhere in your computer.

Firefox

If you use Firefox as your web browser, do this:

Click on the Tools menu

Click on the Options menu item

Click on the Passwords tab

Click on the View Saved Passwords button

In the resulting dialog, click on the Show Passwords button

For other programs, you need to download a few simple utilities. Specifically, NirSoft has available several Password Recovery Tools. Included are tools that will display the saved passwords for a host of different programs and situations.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mspass.html

I want to make sure you remember 3 important things:

1) ‘Remember my password’ is a convenience, and a security risk. Use it with caution.

2) If your machine is not physically secure it is not secure. If someone can walk up to it, insert a disk and reboot it, they can take total control. And that includes recovering your passwords with tools as we’ve seen here.

3) Use a password manager tool, the best one is Roboform, which can memorize and protect your passwords.

Download it here http://www.roboform-fans.com/download-roboform

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