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1Password’s Updated Password Manager Is A Must-Have For Your Mac

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1Password’s Updated Password Manager Is A Must-Have For Your Mac
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Mac: It’s been a few years since we’ve seen AgileBits release a major update to its killer password management app, 1Password, which is why everyone’s so excited about last week’s debut of 1Password 7. This app should pretty much be a household name at this point, as it’s one of the major password managers we recommend to create and store super-secure passwords and passphrases.

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If you aren’t using 1Password, you’re probably using an app such as LastPass instead, which allows you to store and synchronise passwords across your devices without paying a monthly fee. Still, $US3 ($4) each month is hardly a lot to ask for the convenience and security 1Password provides – and all the fun new features you’ll find in its most recent version.

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Rather than going over all the cosmetic- and productivity-themed changes in 1Password 7 – including a new font, “Courier Prime Bits” – I’m going to focus on the one big one that everyone should use: The 1Password Watchtower. Spoiler alert for those still needing to watch Battlestar Galactica, but the Watchtower, in this case, won’t turn you into a Cylon.

Instead, this section of the app – accessible via the 1Password 7 sidebar – gives you a ton of information about your passwords’ strength. And I don’t mean using 31 different crazy characters in a row to ensure your password is practically unguessable. The Watchtower takes a look at the logins you store in 1Password 7 and lets you know when they’re compromised thanks to the major data breaches that seem to happen, oh, once a week or so.

Squeaky clean... for now. (Screenshot: David Murphy)

Squeaky clean… for now. Screenshot: David Murphy

If you enable the feature, Watchtower can even check your passwords against the database over at haveibeenpwnd.com. If your password appears, and it’s fairly unique, then odds are good that, yes, it’s floating around the internet somewhere with the rest of your login information also attached. In other words, stop using that password, and change it anywhere you have used it.

Nervous chuckle (Screenshot: David Murphy)

Nervous chuckle. Screenshot: David Murphy

I also love how Watchtower tells you when you’re reusing passwords for different services. For most people, the list of repeated passwords is likley huge, because we’re all lazy and we like to just use the same hunter2 password for every online account we have. That’s a horrible security practice that almost guarantees your other accounts will get broken into once your “usual” login is leaked from some kind of hack.

It’s a tricky habit to break, but hopefully 1Password’s new “reused passwords” warning will be all the prodding you need.

The Watchtower can also let you know when your passwords aren’t very strong – as in, easily guessable or brute-forceable – when you’ve saved login information for websites that use the less-secure http:// instead of https://, and when you’re storing passwords for websites that use two-factor authentication but haven’t yet set up the process in 1Password’s app.

Screenshot: David Murphy

Screenshot: David Murphy

While 1Password 7 has plenty of other fun features to play with – including easier-to-manage password vaults, integration with macOS’ Spotlight, and Markdown support for Secure Notes, to name a few – the app’s new Watchtower adds a lot of justification for its cheaper-than-a-coffee monthly fee. If you only care about creating great passwords, storing them in an easy-to-access fashion, and having an easy way to see when it might be time to change them, 1Password 7 is the password management app for you.

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