![]() ![]() ![]() I will have a more complete review of Dashlane in the next few days. I have been testing Dashlane for several days and the password change feature seems to work well. Dashlane makes the download for "early access" big and obvious on their home page, whereas Lastpass's "Try Beta Software" page says "Sorry, there is no beta software available at this time." The implication is that Dashlane's does move your passwords to their systems and perform the change from there, but this is not necessarily true.įor now, both companies call the feature beta. Dashlane wants to automate passwords in 2018 Martin Brinkmann Updated Internet 7 Passwords are everywhere. It's your computer, not theirs, which performs the work. Lastpass points out that this ensures that your unencrypted passwords don't leave your system. Lastpass takes a different approach: They open a new browser tab and you can see the entire password change transaction as it happens. Notice that Dashlane hides the actual web session, presenting only a progress indicator and opening a dialog box to ask for any necessary user input. Or perhaps if it came from a more platform-agnostic company like Amazon it would be more politically acceptable to software companies. Similarly, autofill runs smoothly while going the extra mile by inputting. The only practical way would be for some large company, like Microsoft or Google, to create the API, commit to supporting it on their own and then give it away to some standards body with no strings attached. The password capture feature works well and without any hiccups on desktop or mobile. ![]() My proposal was for a standard web API, and I still think that would be the best, most elegant way to do it. Once the site updated their OpenSSL, you were to change all your passwords. The theory with Heartbleed was that so many important sites had been vulnerable for so long that you had to presume that they had been compromised. Perhaps they just saw what I saw, that there was a need for this feature. The timing of the announcements was certainly a bit strange, but in retrospect it's not surprising that more than one company was working on the same thing. Then on Tuesday, Lastpass made the same announcement. ![]()
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