Thanks to 1Password Anywhere, all I’d need to access that encrypted data would be a working web browser and my master password. Wouldn’t it be great to have a recent copy of my encrypted 1Password data on that drive? Like my phone, it would travel with me almost everywhere, but it would never run out of battery, choke on a bad software update, or suffer a shattered screen if dropped by accident. This brings me back to that key-shaped flash drive. Granted, I’m getting pretty close to a worst-case scenario with these hypothetical problems, but it’s precisely on the worst day of your life that you will most need reliable access to your personal, private data. Secondly, I have my Dropbox account protected with 2-factor authentication (you should too!), so if my phone isn’t to hand (or has run out of charge), I won’t have a Dropbox login token, and I won’t be able to access my files online at all! First of all, that means I need to memorise not only my 1Password master password (to unlock my 1Password data), but also my Dropbox account password (to access my locked data at all). No copy of 1Password required! 1Password Anywhere opened in Safariīut wait, did you spot the problem? I had to log into Dropbox to get at that file. So if I find myself in this position, I just surf over to, log into my account, and open up the 1Password.html file I have stored there. As long as you can access a copy of your 1Password data files, you can open the 1Password.html file included within them in a web browser and enter your master password into that web page to gain access to your secure data. 1Password has a neat solution to this called 1Password Anywhere.

As long as I remember my one, very strong master password, I can unlock all of that data and access it from any of my devices.īut what if I need some of my secure data on a computer without 1Password installed? Let’s say I’m fixing a friend’s PC and I need to grab the licence key for a disk repair utility I bought some time ago. Its encrypted database is synced via Dropbox between the Mac, iPhone and Windows versions of the application. I store all my web logins, server logins, credit cards, software licences, SSH and SSL keys, and anything else I want to carry around with me in a secure form in 1Password.

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