PayPal Policy & 1Password

Tshim
Tshim
Community Member
in Mac

Seems to preclude the use of 1Password !

Comments

  • Stephen_C
    Stephen_C
    Community Member
    edited April 2015

    I have to say, personally, that I'd treat the conjunction of these two conditions with the contempt it deserves:

    Not choose a password or PIN that is made more memorable to you such as a sequence of letters or numbers that may be easy to guess.

    Refrain from using any functionality that saves or stores your password or PIN on your access device.

    Those merely confirm my long-held view that I should avoid using PayPal wherever humanly possible.

    I ought to say that I'm merely a volunteer here so these views are my own and obviously not those of AgileBits.

    Stephen

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Community Member

    Well, their UK Twitter account recommends using 1Password (or some other password manager):

    Perhaps storing password in an encrypted manner doesn't count as saving it. I think that would make sense.

  • MrC
    MrC
    Volunteer Moderator

    If you want to be pedantic, their advice seems to imply not storing the unencrypted data, since technically, once you encrypt the password, and store it, it is not longer "your password or PIN".

  • Megan
    Megan
    1Password Alumni

    Hi @Tshim,

    It looks like you've already got some pretty great comments here. Now, your guess is as good as mine as to what was actually in PayPal's mind when writing up these terms (although I wouldn't be surprised if some reasonably decent advice got mis-translated into garbled legalese.)

    I would be inclined to agree with Xe997 - storing a password inside an encrypted program is different than having it typed inside a note or allowing your browser to save the details for you.

    I'm sorry I don't have a more definitive answer for you here, but I do hope this helps. :)

  • Tshim
    Tshim
    Community Member

    I had already chosen to ignore the apparent restriction and only posted to highlight some of the legalese nonsense that seems to abound in the small print on many websites. I agree with all the comments above, in particular Mr C's comment. Onward!

  • Drew_AG
    Drew_AG
    1Password Alumni

    Thank you for posting that, it's certainly interesting - and something most folks would probably not have noticed otherwise.

    If you need anything else, you know where to find us! :)

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