My advice to you is to visit the Google Password Checkup tool once every two to three months and simply go through all three sections until the check marks are no longer red or yellow but green. I can’t stress this enough! If you’re worried about not being able to sign in on another device, make sure that said device has your Google Account synchronizing to it so that your passwords will be detected and injected into form fields automatically! Once again, if you’re having trouble coming up with unique passwords that meet these criteria, you can allow Chrome to auto-generate something for you that fits the bill. Normally, having a password be at least 8 characters with a capital letter, lower case letters, numbers, symbols, and so on strengthens it and makes it harder for an opportunist to guess, even with tools like hash tables. Lastly, the “Weak Passwords” section shows you how many and which of your online accounts is using a password that’s not as secure as it could be. I recommend doing this to avoid patterns! Weak Passwords Instead, I let Chrome randomly generate secure passwords for each of them and also let it store them on my behalf. The screenshot above is a very old one, and I’ve had it saved for a while, so luckily, I’m not sharing the same password across 553 sites anymore. In other words, if they discover your password for one site, they can almost be sure it’s your password for another site or many others. Social engineering relies on humans to slip up or to create patterns, and hackers take these opportunities to figure out what your password may be. However, the truth is that the cultural operation of passwords has been nearly entirely dependent on the human brain – the most fallible and weakest link in the chain. Ideally, every website you visit should use a completely unique and different password, and this is much easier when Chrome auto-fills across both the browser and mobile. The next section on the checkup tool tells you how many passwords are being reused or shared across different online accounts. Fair warning though, it’s super annoying when it redirects you each time you enter your password on sites you trust, but it can be turned off for that site pretty easily! Duplicate or shared passwords This will allow you to determine whether or not your data is safe. These posts explain why.Pro Tip: You can install the Google Password Alert extension from the Chrome Web Store to be notified when entering your password on any website. After following the instructions listed above you’ll have a hard-copy printout of all the passwords that Google has stored from your Chrome browser and Android mobile devices.īonus tip: All of the above being said, it’s really a bad idea to use any type of password manager. If you wish, you can also replace the commas separating the fields with spaces to make it easier to read the various text fields.ħ – After you have the info formatted to your liking simply press the Ctrl+ P key combination to print the file. The last two columns (the text after the last two commas) contain the username and password used to log in to that website or service.Ħ – (Optional) – If all you want to print is the website/service and it’s associated username and password you can edit out the unwanted field before you print it. Note: The first column in the list is the website or service the password is used for. Note: You should now have a plain text file named Google Passwords.csv in your “Downloads” folder that contains a list of all your stored passwords.ĥ – Open the Google Passwords.csv file in Notepad (or your favorite text editor) and you’ll see the list of stored passwords. Just follow the steps below to print all the passwords that Google has stored from your devices:ġ – Click here to visit the “Password Manager” page in your Google account ( log in to your account if you’re prompted to do so).Ģ – Click the Password Options icon that’s located near the top of the page (it looks like a “gear” or “cog”).ģ – Find the line labeled “Export passwords” and click the Export button located on the right-hand side of that line.Ĥ – Read the warning message, then click Export and enter your Google password is prompted to do so. While there’s no way to print Google’s stored password list directly, you can easily download the list to your computer as a plain text file and then print it using your favorite text editor. Several folks asked if there’s a way to print out the passwords that are stored in their Google accounts. That post ended up receiving a lot of attention and several folks asked questions about it. I recently wrote this post explaining how to view all the passwords that Google has stored from your Chrome browser and Android mobile devices.
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