A handful of sites only support SMS-based two-factor, so I set that up as well, and I added a Note to the 1Password item about how I’d set it up. (That update was what prompted me to do this clean.)įor any site which supported two-factor authentication ( is a good list), I set it up in 1Password. 2 Turn on two-factor authenticationĪ recent update for 1Password on iOS added support for software-based two-factor authentication. Every weak login got a new, strong password created with 1Password’s password generator. The Watchtower section also highlights passwords which haven’t been changed since Heartbleed. The Security Audit section has a list of passwords which are old, weak or shared between accounts 1. Change old passwordsġPassword makes it easy to find passwords that need changing. After this cull, I was down to about 150. When I started, I had nearly 400 accounts. I moved the latter into an archive Vault (TJ Luoma at Mac Stories has a good explanation of Vaults), away from my main 1Password database. This left accounts that I wanted to keep, and some others that I’d tried but failed to delete. It was worth the effort: lots of sites got back to me very quickly, and replies continue to trickle in. I didn’t expect much of a response, but I was pleasantly surprised. I wasn’t optimistic, but I tried emailing sites to request account deletion. Plenty don’t say: it’s not clear if (or how) you can delete your account.

Some sites make it impossible: their help pages or FAQs tell you that you can never delete your account.

Some sites make this easy: there’s a “Delete My Account” button on their Settings page.

There was no reason to keep them, so I tried to delete my old and unused accounts. I had a lot of one-shot accounts: I’d signed up, then never looked back. Here are a few suggestions for how you can clean up your database: Delete or archive old accounts This was more than just changing some old passwords: it was a thorough and deep-level reorganisation.

Last week, I set about cleaning up my 1Password database. I also had a lot of weak or duplicate passwords that I’d never changed. I’d never stopped to organise or tidy up my database. I’ve been creating online accounts for years, and saving them in 1Password, but everything was a bit scattered.

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