Keepassing your credentials synced and under control
Wm Salt Hale
/?/ Kilted Globetrotter,
Free/Libre/Open Advocate,
and Lifelong Hacker /?/
William Salt Hale, is a Seattle local who studies Technology and Society at the University of Washington (UW) Department of Communication and is the Community Director at Snowdrift.coop. He attends, organizes, and speaks worldwide at: conferences, conventions, events, festivals, and faires; on various topics including: communication, crowdmatching, internet technologies, linux, music, sci-fi/fantasy, security, and windsports. Salt is very approachable and will always be found wearing a kilt.
Do you use the same few passwords over and over? Is there a piece of paper with hard-to-remember ones somewhere? How about a file that lives on five different devices and is never up-to-date?
Even the most secure passwords can be broken with a $5 wrench. Long forgotten websites are frequently compromised. Files can be stored in The Cloud, but is that really where such sensitive data should be?
By the end of this presentation, you will be able to combine keepassx and git-annex to maintain and synchronize all of your secure credentials.
- Date:
- 2017 October 6 - 10:45
- Duration:
- 50 min
- Room:
- Room 5102
- Conference:
- Seattle GNU/Linux Conference 2017
- Language:
- Track:
- Security/InfoSec
- Difficulty:
- Passing the Baton: Succession planning for FOSS leadership
- Start Time:
- 2017 October 6 10:45
- Room:
- Room 3187
- A division of labor: Attempting to measure free software
- Start Time:
- 2017 October 6 10:45
- Room:
- Room 5104
- SSH and the shell: go forth securely
- Start Time:
- 2017 October 6 10:45
- Room:
- Room 1113
- Clojure for Unix Hackers
- Start Time:
- 2017 October 6 10:45
- Room:
- Room 3199