Schlimm genug, dass #Opera sehr kruzfristig Opera Beta/Next aufgibt. Überhaupt nicht gut läuft der Übergang von Opera Beta/Next zu Opera One.
Synchronisierte Daten werden zwar übernommen, teilweise sogar Extensions [eine Minderheit!], doch das Speed Dial wird nicht automatisch eingespielt, Einstellungen müssen alle manuell neu vorgenommen werden, selbst erstellte Search Engines fehlen. #Dashlane - mglw. nur bedingt Operas Fehler - lässt keine beschränkt-dauerhafte Anmeldung mehr zu.
@david #bitwarden #protonpass #dashlane c'est pas les alternatives qui manquent 😊
Psstt... welke wachtwoordmanager gebruiken jullie? Hoe tevreden ben je daar over qua gebruiksgemak, support en tarief? En weet je waar je data wordt opgeslagen? En als je er geen gebruikt, waarom niet? #durftevragen #1password #dashlane #bitwarden #protonpass
Weekly output: phone plans, Nvidia keynote, passkey adoption, Bending Spoons buys AOL, SpaceX simplifying Starship lander, Internet luminaries on the open Web
This is not going to be a great week for normal sleep cycles: Tuesday, I will wake up at around 4 a.m. to spend a 15-plus hour shift working as an election officer for Arlington, and then Wednesday I’m off to Dulles Airport for this year’s final business trip across the Atlantic. I’m departing for Web Summit in Lisbon several days early because the organizers of another conference, the Mozilla Festival, offered a press pass and a travel stipend to cover that event in Barcelona. I’ve heard good things about this conference over the years, so accepting an invitation to spend a few days in one of my favorite cities in Europe was an easy call.
In addition to what you see below, Patreon readers got a detailed recap of how this past week’s event-packed schedule left its own series of dents in my calendar.
10/28/2025: The Best Cell Phone Plans, Wirecutter
This was going to be a modest update to the guide that I’ve been maintaining since 2014, but T-Mobile jacking up prices while AT&T and Verizon inflicted more modest rate hikes led to us dethroning T-Mo on cost grounds and handing our “for most people” pick to AT&T, which has advanced its own 5G network considerably.
10/28/2025: In DC, Nvidia CEO Touts New AI Partnerships, Goes a Little MAGA, PCMag
Heading into Nvidia’s conference, I was worried that CEO Jensen Huang would go into the weeds about the finer points of GPU architecture. Instead, he used this nearly two-hour keynote to jump from topic to topic without getting into too much detail about any of them–and kept coming back to opportunities to praise President Trump.
10/29/2025: Passkey Adoption Sees Striking Progress, With One Obvious Leader, PCMag
I struggled to get this written at the end of a long workday, resulting in my getting some nuances wrong that required updating the post the next morning.
11/1/2025: Serial Dot-Com Purchaser Bending Spoons to Buy AOL, But Why?, PCMag
Writing about AOL in 2025 makes me feel so old, but as one of PCMag’s graybeards I had to cover the news of Bending Spoons buying the company that once ruled the online world. I got to this story a day after it broke, so I turned that lag into an opportunity to expand the piece with some quotes from a publicist for that Italian firm and from a podcast interview of its CEO Luca Ferrari last year
11/1/2025: After Elon Tantrum, SpaceX Now Prepping ‘Simplified’ Starship-Based Lunar Lander, PCMag
Since I wrote about Elon Musk’s childish reaction to NASA’s understandable concern over the pace of its Human Landing System work, I had to reach for a keyboard to cover SpaceX’s grown-up corporate response.
11/1/2025: ‘The Truth Is Paywalled.’ Internet Vets Lament the State of the ‘Open’ Web, PCMag
This Monday-evening panel was one of the first items on my calendar this week, but having event after event after event follow it led to me not writing it up until Thursday night. Once again, it was a serious treat to hear some of the Internet’s founding figures talk about the state of the thing they invented.
#AmericaOnline #AOL #ArtemisIII #ATT #BendingSpoons #BrewsterKahle #CindyCohn #Dashlane #FoundationForAmericanInnovation #HumanLandingSystem #JensenHuang #Nvidia #NvidiaGTCDC #passkeyExport #passkeys #phonePlans #smartphonePlans #SpaceX #TMobile #unlimitedData #verizon #VintCerf
Email from my password manager vendor. I'm not sure this is what they actually meant to say, because it sure does not sound good.
#Dashlane
Well #PasswordManagers were not as secure as we all thought.
All Password Managers that use a browser add-on/plugin for auto-fill functionality are susceptible to #ClickJacking security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to steal account credentials.
It works on all of them:
#LastPass
#Bitwarden
#iCloudPasswords
#Enpass
#1Password
#NordPass
#ProtonPass
#Keeper
#Dashlane
& yes even the one I use #KeePassXC
Some have pushed out updates.
More info: https://marektoth.com/blog/dom-based-extension-clickjacking/
Passwortmanager sind angreifbar. Das fand Marek Tóth heraus und berichtete darüber auf der #DefCon33:
https://marektoth.com/blog/dom-based-extension-clickjacking/
Die von Tóth aufgedeckten Schwachstellen ermöglichen es Hackern, sensible Daten aus Passwort-Managern zu stehlen, darunter Kreditkartendaten, Namen, Adressen und Telefonnummern, wenn ein Opfer eine bösartige Website besucht. Darüber hinaus können Hacker, wenn eine anfällige Website, auf der Ihre Passwort-Manager-Anmeldedaten gespeichert sind, eine Cross-Site-Scripting-Schwachstelle (XSS) oder eine Subdomain-Übernahme aufweist, diese ausnutzen, um Anmeldedaten (Benutzernamen und Passwörter), 2FA-Codes und Passkeys zu stehlen.
Nach Updates gelten inzwischen folgende Passwortmanager als sicher: #Bitwarden #Dashlane, #Keeper, #NordPass, #ProtonPass & #RoboForm.
#infosec #passwortmanager #2FA#security #privacy #BeDiS
"Wenn Sie #Dashlane nicht mehr verwenden und diese E-Mails nicht mehr erhalten möchten, müssen Sie Ihr Konto löschen." Also entweder akzeptiere ich Werbung für die kostenpflichtige Variante, oder ich soll mich verpissen. Ist das so richtig interpretiert?
Dashlane password manager will end its free service on September 16, 2025. Users must then switch to a premium subscription or export their data.
https://www.webpronews.com/dashlane-to-end-free-password-manager-plan-on-september-16-2025/
Fin de partie pour l’offre gratuite du gestionnaire de mots de passe Dashlane http://dlvr.it/TMM6tj #Dashlane #GestionnaireDeMotsDePasse
Wichtige Änderung bei #Dashlane: Der Passwort-Manager beendet ab 16. September 2025 seinen kostenlosen Dienst. Nutzer müssen dann auf ein Premium-Abo umsteigen oder ihre Daten exportieren. https://winfuture.de/news,152771.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
Weekly output: wireless-service satisfaction, ransomware survey, Dashlane report, Verizon fee increases, drone policy
I had one work event on my calendar this week that I don’t think rates as an appearance worth listing here, since I got roped into it at the last minute. I’d put the Internet Law & Policy Foundry’s tech-law trivia contest on my schedule Wednesday thinking it would be fun to watch, but then one of the contestants asked if I’d like to join their team–and we finished in third place. This was one of the first public trivia contests I’d joined since 1987, when I was a member of the high school team that won a New Jersey state championship, and it’s nice to see that I still have it or at least some of it.
This coming week has me traveling for work for the first time since the middle of June and to an event that first landed on my travel calendar in 2018: I’m headed to Las Vegas for the Black Hat information-security conference. The trip doesn’t include the DEF CON infosec conference that follows Black Hat, and on Patreon I explained why I opted out of that and feel a little guilty about it.
7/31/2025: People Like Wireless Service Best When It Doesn’t Involve the Big 3 Carriers, PCMag
The gap betweeen J.D. Power’s customer-satisfaction stats for the big three wireless carriers and that firm’s metrics for companies reselling the networks of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon caught my eye.
8/1/2025: Ransomware Victims Are Still Paying Up, Some More Than Once, PCMag
This survey published by the security firm Semperis got an unfortunate news peg when the Trump administration rescinded the West Point department-chair appointment of one of the report’s expert contributors, former Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Administration head Jen Easterly.
8/1/2025: This Password Manager Caught Some of Its Own Employees Not Using Its Product, PCMag
Dashlane’s PR folks offered me this story ahead of time. Since I have always found the fallible-human element of information security to be fascinating, I accepted the offer, and then my editors concurred.
8/1/2025: Months After Freezing Wireless Rates But Not Fees, Verizon Slips in a Fee Increase, PCMag
One of my colleagues brought this to my attention, and I was happy to set aside some time Friday morning to cover it.
8/2/2025: The Drone Industry Can’t Wait for This One Federal Regulation to Take Off, PCMag
I spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Nationals Park to cover a drone-policy conference hosted there by the trade group AUVSI, but I didn’t get around to writing it until Thursday night.
#AUVSI #BlackHat #ConsumerCellular #Dashlane #droneDelivery #drones #finePrint #JDPower #junkFees #NationalsPark #NatsPark #passwordManager #ransomware #Semperis #verizon #Vz #wirelessServices
#KeePass 2.59 has been released (#SafePassword / #SecurePassword / #Strongbox / #SafeDepositBox / #1Password / #LastPass / #Dashlane / #Enpass) https://keepass.info/
Weekly output: Zipline drones, fixed wireless broadband, AI transformations, Dashlane, AI fairness, FCC resignations, AI resiliency, National Capital Radio & Television MuseumM
My third week in a row of business travel had me in Santa Clara, Calif., from Tuesday through Friday–at a venue I’d last set foot in at the Demo conference in 2013.
6/3/2025: Inside Zipline’s high-tech drone factory where delivery innovation takes flight, Fast Company
My decision to book an early-afternon flight from SFO to National at the end of my Google I/O trip last month paid off when I used that time to visit the drone-delivery startup Zipline’s factory in South San Francisco. I followed up that visit by quizzing an executive from the firm a week later.
6/3/2025: Fiber Is Fast, But 5G Home Internet Is More Appealing for One Reason, PCMag
I didn’t want to write up this J.D. Power customer-satisfaction survey without getting some answers about the weirdly-high scores for old, slow digital-subscriber-line services.
6/4/2025: Transforming Industries with AI & Big Data—Success Stories from the Frontlines, TechEx North America
The first of three panels I did at this conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center (with the organizers covering my lodging and reimbursing my airfare) reunited me with a fellow panelist from 2021: Lufthansa Industry Solutions’ Stanislaw Schmal, who was on a panel I did at my first post-pandemic conference trip in September of 2021. It was a treat to have Stan on stage again, and he and my other panelists–Oracle’s Shasank Chavan, Ford Credit’s Manav Khatri, Airbnb’s Dror Engel, and Deepgram’s Kris Efland–made my panel-moderation work easy.
6/5/2025: This Password Manager Now Lets You Create an Account Without a Password, PCMag
Dashlane gave me an embargoed copy of their announcement of their new option to let people create accounts secured only by USB security keys, but that left me a little fuzzy about how exactly this would differ from that password-manager service’s existing support for passwordless authentication–and my editor was fine with holding the post until I could get those details cleared up.
6/5/2025: AI Fairness and Bias Mitigation—Advanced Approaches, TechEx North America
My second panel had me quizzing JPMorgan Chase’s Naresh Dulam, Aon’s Aras “Russ” Memisyazici, and PwC’s Ilana Golbin Blumenfeld about how to avoid having AI systems amplify human biases.
6/5/2025: Who’s Running the FCC? Surprise Resignation Reduces the Agency to a Duo, PCMag
I’ve been writing about the Federal Communications Commission for well over two decades, probably closer to three, and I can’t remember a commissioner announcing a resignation on a Wednesday effective on Friday of the same week. Also unprecedented: having this five-member commission reduced to two people.
6/5/2025: Building Resilient AI Infrastructure, TechEx North America
My last panel at TechEx was a late addition when another moderator dropped out; when an event paying your travel asks for you to pitch in, it’s a good idea to be a team player. My teammates on this panel: Ford Motor Company’s Robert Gray, Oracle’s Iman Zadeh, Red Hat’s Mark Kurtz and InfoVia’s Mike Magalsky.
6/6/2025: Spotify Takes Flight on United Airlines: Here’s What You Get, PCMag
When I got to try this on my flight from San Jose to Houston Friday, I realized that United’s implementation of Spotify did not include the ability to listen to the airline’s longtime theme song, “Rhapsody in Blue”–which made the lede I’d written incorrect. Instead of just rewriting that, I opted to take notes on the experience over that three-plus hour flight and rewrite the entire post.
6/7/2025: This Little Museum Outside DC Offers a Deep Dive Into Retro Radio and TV Tech, PCMag
My friend and longtime CES fellow traveler Gary Arlen suggested that I visit the National Capital Radio & Television Museum in Bowie, Md., where he’s a docent, and I took him up on that advice in February. Then I didn’t write the post until March, after which my client needed a little longer to get the story edited and published.
#AI #artificialIntelligence #conference #Dashlane #droneDelivery #DSL #FCC #FIDO2 #fixedWireless #JDPower #NationalCapitalRadioTelevisionMuseum #passwordManager #SantaClara #Spotify #techHistory #TechExNorthAmerica #UA #UnitedAirlines #vacuumTubes #vintage #Zipline
I will say that for some reason getting Dashlane to play nice with Floorp was a nightmare. I had tried to get ahold of their customer support team for about a week without any significant help.
Keep in mind I've been a paying customer for YEARS, ever since they started their service. It was really disappointing to be locked out of all my accounts-- so that I could get work done.
That's really bad when a tool you have to have to get be able to get things done locks you out :/
For anyone who's ever had a #Twitter account out there, just got notified that they've had a #breach. Watch for increase of spam/phishing and change passwords if your account is still active or if you re-use that password anywhere.
Thanks #Dashlane for the heads up.
#Dashlane are warning users of a phishing campaign directed against them. They suggest you "ensure an email is authentic
by verifying that the sender's address ends in @dashlane.com" - email addresses are easily spoofed - I'd suggest not clicking any unexpected links in an email and instead log in to your account and check for messages there.
