Comments on: CyberNotes: Changing Your Firefox Password File

By: Spongebob

Spongebob — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:58:40 +0000

Master-password is helpful for small blogging and small stuff on-line . That’s it.

This is perfect blog here for hacker to get information on how to work. So you have to
really use your own logic in doing this…. Any additional password software online is not
safe @_@ to your important data .

The safest way is not to use the Internet EHehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

By: Ultraman

Ultraman — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:11:01 +0000

@natmaster
Regardless of whatever kind of encryption is used, it is actually a lot easier than you may think. I wish I could explain it to you, but there could be hackers and thieves reading this post as well as all you honest people, and I do not want to give away the secret to anyone who has not figured it out. The only way to be 100% safe is to not do anything online that requires passwords, but by changing the default filename, it makes it that much more difficult for thieves. That works for me.

By: Arenlor

Arenlor — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:11:23 +0000

prefs.js anyone? Firefox records the edited/non-default preferences in there. So if someone wanted to write an automated program, it would first look for the signons.txt then it’d look in prefs.js if it couldn’t find it. Simple, done.

By: Matt Burns

Matt Burns — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:05:43 +0000

I agree with minni, just use the master password!

The analogy is more like:
telling people to move their safe to a non-standard location and the updating the map to the safe (the config) displayed on their front door.

Just lock the safe!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:03:40 +0000

Ryan’s idea is a good one, anything to make it harder. Mr. Minni, your analogy is not accurate. It would be like telling someone WHO KNOWS WHERE THE SAFE IS LOCATED IN EVERY HOUSE to move the safe somewhere UNKNOWN in the house. Not everyone will move it to the same place and it makes it that much harder to find.

By: natmaster

natmaster — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:52:25 +0000

I don’t know for sure what type of encryption is used for the Firefox profile, but I doubt they would use anything ‘easy’ to decrypt. There are many great encryption schemes that are not very performance intensive that offer great encryption capabilities.

By: Saurabh Minni

Saurabh Minni — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:56:43 +0000

Yeah right just because people will not use a lock…you ask them to change the position of their safes from north side of house to south side

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:56:29 +0000

Yes, you are right. However, most people that I know do not use a master password. That means it would be pretty easy for someone to create a virus that would send the two necessary files to someone. I just do this as an additional safety precaution.

By: Saurabh Minni

Saurabh Minni — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:10:05 +0000

Would not it be easier to just have made Masterpassword thing enabled on Firefox. This would just be a useless exercise if at all anything