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Plan on going back in time, what becomes of current libraries?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1947919" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Be careful about how far you fall behind. Banks/businesses/investment institutions are moving forward with new technologies that introduce more security, so if you get/stay too far behind you may find that you can lon longer get to your banking, bill paying, medical records, etc. At that point, your life is no longer simple at all.</p><p></p><p>Passwords and passkeys: Here is a reasonable article article that came out in November, so it's relatively current: <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/digital-security/should-you-use-passkeys-instead-of-passwords-a1201817243/" target="_blank">Should You Use Passkeys Instead of Passwords? - Consumer Reports</a></p><p></p><p>Passkeys work well for me where I can use them. </p><p></p><p>As for where passwords are kept, years ago Apple put them in Keychain, and then provided Keychain manager to allow you to get to them. It was fragile and frankly unfriendly for the average user. Third-party developers came along and significantly improved on password management. Apple eventually decided to change their password approach and replaced Keychain Manager with Passwords and added a lot of functions that came with the third-party offerings. I had 1Password, but it's gone subscription mode now. Passwords from Apple is included in the OS and works well, so I'm shifting over to it and will get rid of 1Password.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1947919, member: 396914"] Be careful about how far you fall behind. Banks/businesses/investment institutions are moving forward with new technologies that introduce more security, so if you get/stay too far behind you may find that you can lon longer get to your banking, bill paying, medical records, etc. At that point, your life is no longer simple at all. Passwords and passkeys: Here is a reasonable article article that came out in November, so it's relatively current: [URL="https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/digital-security/should-you-use-passkeys-instead-of-passwords-a1201817243/"]Should You Use Passkeys Instead of Passwords? - Consumer Reports[/URL] Passkeys work well for me where I can use them. As for where passwords are kept, years ago Apple put them in Keychain, and then provided Keychain manager to allow you to get to them. It was fragile and frankly unfriendly for the average user. Third-party developers came along and significantly improved on password management. Apple eventually decided to change their password approach and replaced Keychain Manager with Passwords and added a lot of functions that came with the third-party offerings. I had 1Password, but it's gone subscription mode now. Passwords from Apple is included in the OS and works well, so I'm shifting over to it and will get rid of 1Password. [/QUOTE]
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