91_Aggie said:
Question about how these work.
Are the passwords you use for the indivdual sites that the app saves for you, accessible to you to read as plain text?
In other words if i actually want to know the password i picked for amazon.com 2 years ago, will lastpass/1password allow me to view it?
It only stores the current password, but yes.
The biggest advantage to these things is that because you almost never have to manually enter the passwords, you can let it automatically generate a unique string of characters for each of your logins and let it automatically enter them into the website, or at worst cut and paste them.
Something like logging into an xbox or something like that can be a pain, but I very rarely have to do that.
I couldn't tell you what any of the passwords are to any of the accounts that I actually care about keeping secure, because I don't need to know them. They're all random 12-16 character strings.
If you're just storing the plain text passwords that you would be using anyway, you're not getting much security advantage.