0003: Proper Password Hygiene For Actors And Voice Talent – Use Dashlane

well hey there hero today I want to talk
to you about password hygiene proper
password hygiene I thought I was
practicing terrific
password hygiene I wasn’t I’m so wrong
I’m so sorry we’re gonna talk about this
in just a second in this episode of the
vo Heroes podcast up next
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so as a performer passwords are
essential you’ve got to get into actors
access and breakdown services and
casting sites like voice 1 2 3 and you
need to get into your email and you need
to get on social media you know why
passwords are so effective and I could
go on forever about how to create a
password and not making it easy to guess
but I’ll save that for another video
I’ve got some things that you can use
and in fact in this video I can show you
real quickly how to not ever have to
have that conversation so here’s the
thing we often have to share our
passwords with our family or our friends
or our team members or agents or
managers or a tech guru that’s helping
us get logged in somewhere or helping us
with our website and often what happens
is you’ll say oh in an email
here’s my username and here’s my
password now once that happens it’s out
in the wild and anybody can grab it and
use it your email could get hacked
you may be using the same password for
multiple sites and look if I’m not
trying to shame you I know that this is
the behavior that happens because in the
world of passwords there’s this constant
struggle between complexity of passwords
so that they’re hard to guess and being
able to remember your password and being
it and the the the convenience of being
able to log in and use the services that
are password protected that’s always the
battle that goes back and forth and so
password people will tell you your
passwords have to be hard to guess but
your little critter brain is like how am
I ever gonna remember this password and
so you write it down in a notebook or
you put it in a text document on your
computer or you send it to yourself via
email all of those things completely
negate the safety that are hard to
remember password and a hard to guess
password gives you so what to do about
all this right
I thought for the longest time well you
know I’ll just let chrome pick my
password and I’ll keep it in chrome and
you know picking the password that was
good because chrome uses the same kinds
of algorithms that the other solutions
I’m going to share with you use and it’s
great they use uppercase and lowercase
letters and numbers and symbols and so
on
that’s fantastic the problem comes when
they save it to their browser because
hackers are clever people and they can
find these things they can figure these
things out they can use social
engineering to get into your accounts
and once they’re into your accounts they
can find what’s going on in chrome so
Chrome Safari doesn’t really matter
Internet Explorer edge you know there
are there’s new browsers like blaze that
they claim to be able to protect you but
let me just cut to the chase and let me
give you the solution that has worked
for me so well and I want to share with
you and that solution is a password
management system and it’s an app now
there are a number of them out there
I’ve looked at all of them and the one
that I settled on is one called dash
Lane and dash line is an app it’s a
browser extension it’s either an iOS or
an Android app and they all talk to each
other so when you set up your passwords
in this app on one device if you change
it if you update it if you replace it it
then goes out and syncs with all the
other devices and it all happens
securely encrypted and you manage this
all with one master password that again
in a separate video sometime soon I will
help you create but what happens with
dashlane is none of the passwords are
saved in your browser
none of them are saved on your devices
in plain text and if you need to share
your password with someone else you can
do so simply by giving them permission
to let dashlane fill in your password
you don’t actually share your password
with them you just share the ability for
dashlane to put the password in so
here’s how patch – Lane works you go to
a website
you type in your username and you’re
about to type in your password and
dashlane pops up and says do you want me
to fill this in for you great I can do
that even if you have more than one
account so for example if you have a
business Twitter account and you have a
personal Twitter account it can log into
either one depending upon what username
you’re using it knows that there are
separate passwords and it picks really
great hard to guess passwords with all
those variances that I talked about
before uppercase lowercase numbers
symbols spaces all kinds of things and
you don’t ever have to worry about
knowing where that password is because
it’s protected on dash lanes servers now
I think it’s the best solution out there
today as I’m you know recording this
video but who knows nothing is totally
secure this is the most secure of all
the options that I’ve looked at and I’ve
tried and I’ve arranged for dash line to
give you six months free of their
premium service now dash line is free
for up to 50 usernames and passwords but
if you want to use it for everything
store you know special documents that
you want to protect and encrypt share
etc you need the premium software and
the premium software it’s not all that
expensive but hey free is free right and
I can get it to you free for six months
now I’ll get a little taste of that I’ll
get some more months on my password
protection with dashlane as well if you
go check it out and go premium but it’s
easy to do just go to vo heroes dot-com
slash get – – Lane so GE T – da SH la +
e and when you go there just grab it you
don’t have to keep the six months they
don’t ask for a credit card it’s a
really easy thing to do and once you
start using it you will see just how
easy it is you install it on your
computer you install it on your mobile
devices you use it in all those places
you can both create and change and enter
passwords you can auto fill those forms
that you have and it
auto log you in to the sites that
dashlane has figured out how to do that
with and they do it all encrypted with
very high level protection and yes
someday passwords may crack all kinds of
password protection or hackers may crack
all kinds of password protection schemes
but this one they’ve thought this out
really well – Lane it’s what I think
actors and professionals need to stay
safe online especially with all the
things that you need to access these
days that require usernames and
passwords on the web so I hope that
helps if you like this give me a like
give me a share give me a comment below
and let me know what you use to protect
your passwords if anything at all and
don’t be afraid to say yeah I was where
you are David I’m you know just send in
my passwords around to myself via email
saving them in notes but let me know and
let me know if this helps you okay I’d
really like to to see that this works so
it’s vo heroes comm slash get – – lane
for six months free of – Lane this isn’t
a commercial for them I really want you
to stay safe I thank you so much for
watching i’m david h Lawrence is 17 and
we’ll see you next time on the vo Heroes
podcast
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