Schadenfreude » email http://www.ralree.com Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:49:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 KeePassX: The Perfect Password App http://www.ralree.com/2011/10/16/keepassx-the-perfect-password-app/ http://www.ralree.com/2011/10/16/keepassx-the-perfect-password-app/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:30:46 +0000 Erik http://www.ralree.com/?p=23197 Recently, I’ve been having some trouble with passwords. Either the login name is a string I never use, and therefore never commit to memory (like my real phone number that I mask with Google Voice), or the password policy forces me to use a password that I’ll never remember (like sites that keep track of your past passwords, or require 11 characters of alternating symbols, letters and numbers, etc.). Since I use spamgourmet, any site that requires an email address as a username is another puzzle – sometimes I even have to login there to find the right one. Also, I have a concern that if I die, my wife will have real trouble getting into all my accounts, so it would be nice if I could just leave her one password to give her access to all that information. So, I broke down and started using a password organizer app. Now, I have always been averse to using these applications for a variety of reasons (online companies having all your passwords, plaintext in swap space / memory, keyloggers, insecure encryption, etc.), but I managed to find one that’s open source, never caches my master password, widely used, and has extreme cross-platform capabilities. KeePassX is the name, and it’s available in Ubuntu. Installing it is left as an exercise to the reader. Once you get in there and add a few passwords, it starts to look something like this:

It allows you to mask both your usernames and passwords (both optionally) from the top-level view. It has clipboard capabilities, so you can just copy your password to the clipboard by clicking a button, and never see it on the screen in plain-text. Their security is really well-done. But the big realization today was that they have an Android App! This app only need the kdb file from any instance of the application, and of course the password to decrypt it. It’s available in the market too! But, how do you sync changes between your main desktop and your phone? Dropbox! Using the dropbox mobile app, I simply synced the kdb file onto the phone, and then opened it. KeePassDroid popped up and asked if I wanted to make it the default database, and I checked the box. Done.

Now, whenever I make a change, it syncs over Dropbox like magic.

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Hello
I wish to let you know that i have been paid by a client to assasinate you
at convinience,i have signed a contract of $250,000 yesterday for this,i
have never met you before,but they gave me the full description of your identity and contact,together with your photograph which my boys have used to trace you.

The reason why they want you Dead is not disclised to me as i was not allowed to know,but you are now not better that the dead ok.

My BOYS are now contantly watching you,they are following you anywhere you go and they are waiting for the instruction to terminate you.

I used the contact the client gave me to source for your email from the public email directory so that i can get you informed that you will be killed

This is my message to you.

LISTEN VERY WELL !!!!,the Police cannot do much to help you out in this right now because you are beign watched,any such attempt is very risky cause you will push us to terminate your life without option

your calls are not safe also.In fact you are traced.

I have no business with you but at least i have cleared the way as a pro-,

HAVE A NICE DAY TODAY!!!!! GOOD MAN.

Thank you
loverboy.

What a disturbing email! I notified the FBI.

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