Brain Assassin

Dur­ing the last months I got ever more irri­tated by the pass­word man­ager imple­mented in Fire­fox. If you want secu­rity, you have to assign a mas­ter pass­word. Of course, you have to enter it at least once, if you want to make use of the man­ager directly or via inter­est­ing add-​​ons like Secure Login. This add-​​on adds a but­ton that acts sim­i­lar to Opera’s wand. Well, I didn’t much like Fire­fox’ pass­word man­ager because you would have to syn­chro­nize your data­bases if you need your pass­words in more than one loca­tion – at home and at work, for instance.

A few weeks ago, I stum­bled over a pass­word man­ager called Robo­Form. I didn’t have time to check it out back then, but I did today. And let me tell you: I like what I’m see­ing! After a lit­tle con­fig­u­ra­tion it works like a charm. All you have to do is to get an online stor­age ser­vice you’re going to use to sync files. That’s it, you’re done. Of course, you still have to enter your mas­ter pass­word once but that’s the price you pay for secu­rity. By the way, you don’t have to set a mas­ter password.

Any­way, Robo­Form stores and man­ages your pass­words, enters the infor­ma­tion auto­mat­i­cally or man­u­ally, and stores dif­fer­ent iden­ti­ties with lots of addi­tional infor­ma­tion. You can trust it with your credit card or bank­ing account infor­ma­tion. It’s quite flex­i­ble and easy to use. I already love it. Best of all, it’s free. Well, sort of. I won’t save much infor­ma­tion at all after the 30 day trial. Let’s see if I can get my hands on some­thing sim­i­lar or if I have to acquire some licenses. I know, I know, I could use KeeP­ass for free but this tool isn’t designed to act like a filler …