Great show Jay. I happened to listening to the show @ 2 AM and to my shock; my favorite lefty podcast mentioned my favorite password manager! #whenworldscollide…. IMHO, I believe that by you pointing out the use of an easy to use password manager reinforces some of the podcast excerpts - increasing the ease of encryption so that it becomes a way of life. This is a point that is near and dear to me :)
Keep up the good work!

Joshua, the download function was accidentally turned off but now it’s on. Should be good to go now.

this episode won’t down load. i tried explorer and Mozilla.

All good points, Mark. I tried to cover my bases by urging people to use 1Password “or any other similar password manager” and put the focus where I did only because it’s the app I happen to be familiar with. To be honest, I didn’t know that Firefox had a password management solution until you posted this comment.

-Jay!

Just listened to the @radio_dispatch bit and your call to use OnePassword and was struck by the antipathy towards Firefox. Firefox, unlike Google Chrome or OnePassword, allows you to use the Mozilla’s servers or your own to store your encrypted information. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Firefox-Accounts

Why is this important? When you use Chrome, your entire browsing history is shared with Google. This provides convenience — when you use your Android device, you have the same bookmarks and browser history. But it also allows Google to mine all this information, target better ads for you, see all the web pages you view even if those are hidden behind a firewall (if they want to), etc.

Firefox, like most of Chrome, is open source (unlike OnePassword https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/22686/open-sourcing-1password-was-security-question). And, like Chrome, it allows you to share your passwords and browsing history between your desktop and your phone.

However, when this information is sent to the Mozilla servers (or your own), it is totally encrypted. This keeps the NSA or your neighbor from seeing what you send to the “cloud” but it also keeps the people who run the cloud from reading your passwords and browsing history because they don’t have the password to access this information. The same cannot be said of Google Accounts.

If you use OnePassword’s DropBox integration, your passwords are protected in a similar way.

Firefox Accounts don’t (yet) have any integration with apps on your phone, but, as far as I can see, neither does OnePassword.

I appreciate what you’ve done to ask people to protect their online identity. Please keep up the good work, but also consider supporting organisations like Mozilla.org that has the public interest in mind.