It’s no surprise that 95% of U.S. consumers share up to six passwords with other people when you consider that this includes WiFi passwords for home Internet connections and sharing Netflix passwords with family members, but a survey by LastPass showed that 59% also re-use the same passwords for multiple sites.
Put the two facts together and people could potentially be allowing access to rather more than they intended.
The younger you are, the more likely you are to share passwords with a friends: 40% of 18-29 year olds do so, dropping to 15% for those aged 30-44 and 6% at 45-59. Only just over a quarter bother to reset a password after they’ve shared it with someone else.
While the company’s motivation is to promote the emergency access and password-sharing features it introduced last month, it does provide a nudge to ensure you’re not using your WiFi password for anything sensitive.
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The real problem standing in the way of apps like this or 1Password from completely dominating a user’s password life is the lack of significant integration into the places where passwords are entered.
They’ve made inroads, with web browser extensions, and even 1 out of every 10,000 iOS Apps supporting iOS 8 app extensions : – /
It has a long way to go, before anywhere and everywhere I go on OS X or Windows or Linux or iOS or Android….gives me the ability to input a password from 1Password.
Yes, app support for both password managers and Touch ID is still disappointing.
I would believe it. While I use separate passwords for specific types of accounts, I don’t use different passwords for every site. I really though iCloud Keychain would solve some of the issue by allowing super complex passwords, and it does if you are tech minded enough to know where to look up you passwords, not having app integration authorized by Touch ID or some other form of verification really crippled that feature for the average user on iOS & tvOS.