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environs of Password Keeper. So when creating a new password entry, be
sure you have the following information (see Figure 6-9):
✓ Title: This one's straightforward. Just come up with a name to describe the
password-protected account — My Favorite Shopping Site, for example.
✓ Username: This is where you enter the username for the account.
✓ Password: Enter the password for the account here.
✓ Website: Put the Web site address (its URL) here.
✓ Notes: Not exactly crucial, but the Notes field does give you a bit of
room to add a comment or two.
Figure 6-9:
Set your
password
here.
The only required field is Title, but a title alone usually isn't much use to you.
We suggest that you fill in as much other information here as possible, but at
the same time, be discreet about those locations where you use your username
and password — so don't put anything in the Website field or use My eBay
Account as a title. That way, in the unlikely case that someone gains access to
your password to Password Keeper, the intruder will have a hard time figuring
out where exactly to use your credentials.
Generating passwords randomly
If you're the kind of person who uses one password for everything but knows
deep in your heart that this is just plain wrong, wrong, wrong, random pass-
word generation is for you. When creating a new password for yet another
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