- If you're one of those people
that wants to create a more secure password profile
for your online logins
but you don't trust password manager apps
to keep all of your passwords safe,
then the double-blind password strategy is for you.
Simply put, the double-blind password
is a means of creating and storing passwords
in a password manager app
that keeps the real password hidden
from both the app and the user.
In this video, I'm gonna show you not only how it works
but we're gonna walk through
how to easily implement this strategy
for your most sensitive online logins.
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Okay, although the double-blind password strategy
can be used on any password manager app software,
for the sake of this demonstration,
I'm gonna be using 1Password
which is the one that I use.
You can find links and further written instructions
in the description below this video.
Now, let's look exactly
how the double-blind password strategy works.
Pretend for a moment that this box right here
is your password manager app.
Now, this app helps you to create strong passwords
and not only that but it helps you to store those passwords
behind a master password that only you know.
Now, although these risks are very limited,
there's the fear that someone might be able
to get access to your master password
and therefore have access to all
of your most sensitive logins and data.
So what if you were to take this strong password
and you were to add a unique ID
that only you know?
In this case, you don't know your full password
because you don't know, you can't remember exactly
what the password manager created
but then again, whatever's stored here
in the password manager app is not the full password.
And the brilliance of this strategy
is that you get the benefits
of having a password manager app
without the risks of putting all your eggs in one basket.
Now, let's go ahead,
I'm gonna pull out my laptop
and we're gonna see exactly how this works
in the real world.
All right, first thing I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna log on to Facebook.
I'm gonna show you exactly how that would work.
Using 1Password, it's gonna come up
and offer a suggestion for login.
I'm gonna click that.
The problem is if I try to log in with this password
that it has stored,
you're gonna notice that it's actually a wrong password
and Facebook is gonna tell me as much.
That is not a correct password.
The password that you've entered is incorrect.
So what I've actually done
is this is a double-blind password.
So I have to actually add the four,
you would do four or six, eight characters
at the end of it
that then make the password
that the password manager app put in for me
actually be correct.
That is the double-blind password.
So that's how a double-blind password works in practice.
Now, how do you set it up?
Let's do this again in Facebook
and I'm gonna set up a new double-blind password.
First, I'm gonna go into my Settings
and I'm going to click on my Security and Login.
You can do this with your bank,
you can do this with your email.
I have it on all of my major logins.
So I'm gonna click on changing password
and I've got my current password
that it's gonna put in there.
Now, I've already got a double-blind password
so I've already got to put that in.
Now, I'm gonna have
the password manager app create a new password
and again, you're seeing me do this.
Trust me when I say that I'm gonna change this.
I'm gonna have it update in my password manager app.
So it's updated in the password manager app
what it's put in there.
Now, what I'm gonna do
is I'm going to add in my extra unique ID
that makes this an even stronger password
'cause I don't know, I can't remember exactly
what the password manager app put in there for me.
All I know is my unique identifier.
In the same way, the password manager app
doesn't know my unique ID.
And so I'm gonna save those changes
and I'm gonna stay logged in for all of these.
And again, what I'm doing is if I were to log out
and I were to try to log back in using that password,
the password that is stored in the password manager app
is the wrong password.
It has to have that unique identifier.
And so that's what I'm gonna add in,
this unique identifier
that then says this is my correct password.
And that's how you set it up.
It's not that complicated
and I don't set it up for every single password I have.
It's just for the most sensitive,
my investments, my banking, my email
and some of my social media.
What I love about this strategy
is that your password is never stored anywhere
and yet you still have very strong, unique passwords
for every single login that you have.
That's all I've got for you.
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Thanks.