dude... I just realize that you registered this account (srslydude) here 16 hours ago especially to make this bold Declaration of Yahoo Independence?!? Why? Why you take it so seriously? And you say Yahoo don't invest enough in people like you :) Make sure they read this then :)
Thank you. You're all right of course - I don't argue. You have my 1 point for your evangelism.
As I say before - I expressed only my personal opinion and I don't have any intention to start discussion or flame war on that matter. Can I express my opinion or it's not allowed? I simply don't like Microsoft/Google and the way they do business - is there anything wrong with that? Or we all MUST adore and love Microsoft and Google? Of course all these questions are rhetorical and I don't demand answers.
yeah - if you start to get paranoid you will end in a mental institution :)
no, seriously, if you choose a good 'primary' password -it's ok. Choose somethimg around 10-15 chars and use digits, caps, smalls, special. But do it in a way that it's easy to memorize. There is a plenty of papers on how to do this around the net. But in short (and very paranoid way to construct password):
1. Get a phrase that is meaningful (for you at least);
2. Get first letter of the first word, second letter of the second word, third from the third etc. If there is not fifth letter in fifth word - use last one;
3. Substitute some of the letters with look-alike digits or chars: A for 4, a for @, l for 1, e for 3, s for 5, g for 9 etc etc;
4. Make second, forth, eight (or first, third, fifth) chars uppercase (if they are letters);
5. Done.
It sounds complicated but it isn't. It's easy. And soon enough you will be able to construct such a passwords in a seconds in your mind. :)
example:
'Someones screaming my name,
Come and make me holy again,
Im the man on the silver mountain'
1. Scyeedeeynmennern
2. sCyeEdeeYnmenNern
3. 5Cye3deeYnmenNern
Not very good example because all of these repeated characters but you get the idea. You can memorize it just singing Rainbow's 'Man on The Silver Mountain' to yourself :)
And don't go very paranoid. If you want to be very very very very secire - use retina-scan device or DNA tests before you give access :)
yes - it's just password protected and encrypted with the passphrase you use when gpg asks you. all you need to open the file on another computer is gpg and, of course, the passphrase used.
even better - when you need certain password you can do:
and you will get the password for that mail account only and the entire encrypted file will stay encrypted and never will be saved as plain text file on the system you use at the moment.