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Title: Why not pick Keychain instead of 1Password or LastPass?
Post by: HCK on May 02, 2016, 04:05:12 pm
Why not pick Keychain instead of 1Password or LastPass?

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I recommend regularly that people use some sort of password-management system that lets them set hard-to-crack passwords (whether short and complicated or long and easy to remember) uniquely for every site and service, and also lets them fill in those passwords everywhere they need to.</p><p>
Lowell Nelson emailed me a few weeks ago wondering why I’m so hot on third-party options, like 1Password (https://1password.com), Dashlane (https://www.dashlane.com/passwordmanager), and LastPass (https://lastpass.com), when Apple has a robust, multiplatform solution of its own that includes synchronization: Keychain. (Keychain more specifically describes the OS X part, while iCloud Keychain (http://www.macworld.com/article/2058081/how-to-use-icloud-keychain.html) allows synchronization across devices and use with iOS.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3060630/ios/why-not-pick-keychain-instead-of-1password-or-lastpass.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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