LastPass Password App Review

Date: Apr. 23, 2012

LastPass for Securing Your Logins and Passwords

A good solution is to store login and password information in a secure online service. We recommend LastPass.

An efficient solution for providing convenient access to passwords and strong security is the online service, LastPass. (http://www.lastpass.com) It has the blessing of an excellent independent computer security expert, Steve Gibson (www.grc.com) based on its well-designed and time-tested strong security.

With LastPass, you use one login and super-secret password to store and protect all your passwords and critical private information. No one can access the contents of your account without your master password. Your master password is not known to LastPass administrators and they cannot recover or restore it.

LastPass allows you to:
• Store all your important logins and passwords safely in one place
• Get at them quickly using your strong master password
• Immediately access secure webpages by automatically entering logins and passwords
• Store notes containing confidential instructions and information

We recommend using LastPass in place of creating and using your own master list of logins and passwords. You can use LastPass day in and day out on your computer and even on your mobile phone.

The service is available in free and premium ($1.00 per month) versions. The free version is fully functional but displays an advertisement on the side of the screen. The premium version supports use on mobile phones. ( why is it so cheap? Makes me not trust the quality)

A big advantage of using LastPass is that you can keep your logins and passwords up-to-date for your own use and for your successor’s use if the need arises. All your successor needs is your LastPass login and password.

But is LastPass really safe? Do I really want to store my passwords on the Internet? Yes! For reassurance, you could delve into Steve Gibson’s exhaustive analysis. YouTube (10 min.): http://bitly.com/lastpassvideo - Transcript Link: http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-256.htm (Discussion starts half-way through).