David Gilson tackles that age old problem of how to manage web passwords using your desktop and smartphone - and he ends up at a solution that most readers won't even have heard of. It's also a solution that doesn't actually store your passwords anywhere at all, making it device-independent and utterly secure from hacking, in the case of theft or loss. 

"Password management is a tricky topic at the best of times, and even more so on mobile devices. The simplest form of password management is to use the same password everywhere. This has the obvious flaw that if one website is compromised, all of your online identities are at risk. Therefore, the sensible alternative is to have different passwords for every web site/service that you use. As ever, security and convenience conflict; with the wide range of services that many people use, it can be difficult to remember a password for each of them. Fortunately, all modern web browsers offer to remember log-in details. However, those details are not always stored in an encrypted file."

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