Think about password managers

I found myself talking to a bunch of high school students one day asking them, “Who is planning to go to college?“ I was there to get civic engagement credit for my political science class. I’m no saint. I want those points! Anyway, not a lot of hands went up. It was super discouraging. I asked them why and a lot of them felt like it was hard to pay for or something like they weren’t smart enough. I spent the rest of my talk just sharing some ideas on how to go about financing college and all the cool things you can do in college. I also showed them how much of an idiot I was and I got in collage. My SAT score was so sad my parents gave all the college money to my brother. My mom made sure I had a car so I could get to work at the Bar-B-Que.

Anyway, the title of this blog is for you to think about password managers. I’ve shared one in the Resources tab on the top of this blog. Keepass is there and I like it because you have it saved locally, which means, on your computer. Let’s zoom to now. Lately, I’m talking to people about using password managers, not to get class points but because now I am a saint, and I’m hit with the same response as to why people don’t use them just like the high school kids. They think they are hard and they are not “tech savvy“ enough. I challenge them to try it and to just put one password on there. Specifically a password that grants one access to your money. Make it super hard to remember, because that’s what the password manager will do, and then when you try to sign into your bank account you can simply copy paste whatever you wrote in the password manager. I think once people start trying it they will see how nice it is to not remember your password. Wait, I take that back. You just need to remember one to sign into your password manager.

Give it a chance and once you go password manager you don’t go back-ager.