<p>Q: Is it possible to use one password on the Internet instead of hundreds?</p><p>A: While there are many initiatives to allow you to use one password for everything on the Internet, it is not the best way to ensure your personal information is protected. For example, you wouldn't want to use the same username and password for your bank as the one you use for commenting on your favorite news site. That would mean your bank account login would only be as safe as the security at the weakest site you use - losing that one name and password could be detrimental to your online life.</p><p>One option to consider is a password manager. These are software programs that store your websites, logins and passwords on your PC. They are protected by a single password to access the password manager. Password managers provide tools to encrypt text files that can store all your passwords that are not Web-based, such as Windows and Outlook passwords, Lotus Notes passwords, administration passwords including local and domain accounts, BIOS passwords, encrypted hard drive passwords, cellphone and voicemail passwords, iPad and iPhone passwords, and so on. Information Week names the five best password managers at http://ubm.io/OVKDXl .</p><p>Another option is to store your passwords on a secure, PIN-protected, encrypted, removable device, like a USB or a smart card, so they do not stay on your PC, where perhaps others could use them. This also lets you take them with you. If you go this route, remember to choose a long, impossible to guess password, and memorize it.</p><p><a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/05/22/3019843/just-ask-gemalto-can-i-use-just.html">Keep reading...</a></p>