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Finally set up a password manager for my family after putting it off for months
I had to choose between just using my browser's built-in one or getting a separate service like Bitwarden. I went with Bitwarden because it works on all our phones and my wife's laptop. It took about an hour on Sunday to move our main logins over, and it already saved us from reusing the same password on a new site. What's the best way to get my parents to start using something like this without it being a hassle?
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oliver_wilson4927d ago
Tbh I see it differently than @taylor668 here. Handing over a single master password like an old cat name plus a year is basically doing half the work and skipping the real lesson. My parents needed to understand why they were switching, not just have it done for them. I spent two extra Sundays going through their logins one by one, showing them how a password from a data breach would pop up on bitwarden and that clicked way better than me just setting it all up and walking away.
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taylor6681mo ago
Oh man, my buddy tried to get his mom on a password manager last year and it was a whole thing. He ended up just setting it up on her computer himself during a visit and made her one master password she could remember, something like her old cat's name plus the year she got married. He said the trick was doing all the work for her first and just handing over the keys.
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