Tuesday 8 March 2011

Mitto password organizer

This Web 2.0 tool caught my interest, as it promised to allow me to securely store and manage my logons and passwords to all of my favourite websites, and access them with the click of a button.  My first thought was in regard to security, but after reading through the introductory materials and taking a tour, I am pretty confident of the security.  You have to create an account with a specific phrase that will be included in all emails to you from the site, so that you can identify it as authentic.  You have to create a user name and password with three security questions, and then once you create the account, you are emailed a confirmation number (email included my security phrase) that you must enter to activate your account.

However, adding websites was not as easy as I thought it would be.  Some common websites you can search by name or URL and add easily, like Facebook, Twitter and Ebay.  Anything more obscure requires you to install their "bookmarklet" on your toolbar, which you must use from the actual website to add it to your mitto account.  In addtion, some websites with more security like a banking website won't allow the one click access even once it is added to your Mitto account, you still have to go through several steps of security.

However, even if you don't use the one click feature, you can display the website and passwords of sites you have added, so it could be used simply as a storage for this information, as opposed to the sticky notes or lists of passwords that some of us maintain (even though you're supposed to have different passwords for all of your sites that are not common names and not write them down for people to find).

So my verdict is as with a lot of things - sounded really good in theory, but in practice I think it's easier for me to keep my written list of passwords and enter them as I go.  I would still have to enter logon and password to access Mitto, so unless I am going to several different password websites in one session, doesn't really make sense for me.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the feed back on this site. Having somewhere to store all the log in info and passwords for all these new sites does sound good in theory. From what you have found it doesn't sound like it will be a great benefit for me right now.

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  2. Hi,
    Thanks for the review. Sounds way too complicated for me.

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