Stone's KeyKeeper - The Key to Online Security

kThere's one small, anonymous piece of software essential to the entire project of adopting new ICT and integrating it in your work space.

It's called Stone's KeyKeeper (click on the screendump to go to download).

It has served me well, ever since one of the managers of the Danish 3D design company Turntool pointed it out to me. KeyKeeper has never locked me out, lost me a password or in any way misfired. It is easy to use, easy to maintain, easy to organize, easy to reinstall and copy, and it never causes any kind of conflicts.

The trick to it is simple: You download it, and all you have to do is remember one password instead of 500.

KeyKeeper will remember everything for you

• IP-adress and MAC adresses
• Router settings
• Secure LAN login
  
• Internet account number
• Pop settings for your e-mails
• Domain account login
• CMS logins
• Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, etc.
• Other Google accounts
• Software registration codes
• Facebook, Digg, Reditt, iReporter, Twitter, etc.

Important advise:

• You should perform a manual backup of KeyKeeper, even if you have a daily automatic backup of your files running on your computer. Always check that the copy contains all entries by accessing the program.
  
• Place the copy on a separate drive or on a memory stick - or both. Double backup never hurt anyone.
  
• Be careful never to replace the original with an empty copy or an older version without your latest additions, if you have multiple backup systems, particularly automatic. You cannot count on them to copy the content properly.
  
• If you have to restore KeyKeeper from a copy on a separate partition or harddisk, do not reinstall KeyKeeper to the C: drive.
• Just drag and drop it to the folder of your choice. If it does not appear in your Start menu, where you will soon want to be able to find it, type in the proper path, and Start will recognize it.
• And, of course, always customize both user name and password for every service you use to limit potential damage, if your security is compromised. Use letters and numbers and special signs on the keyboard in every word, and if applicable higher and lower case.
  
• (Never download software or install addons to browsers that randomize passwords - they may be systems to log new passwords!)
  

Sounds complicated? Well, it is about a 100 times more complicated storing your passwords in any other format, and it is less safe.

(The disclaimer on the download site says it is not approved for professional use, but trust me on this one: If you apply the appropriate safety measures for your online and offline activity, the KeyKeeper is the safest way to fast and steady progress with the multitude of applications requiring you to enter login and password to access them).