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Do account usernames need to be as complicated as passwords?
I was recently reading about account security, and the author said using your name, email address or anything close to those items was not very smart these days. The author advised that you should go...
@ 1P_Dave
That helps a lot. Thank you, Dave!
Hi 1P_Dave!
Thanks for your answer. Can you go back and create Masked Emails for existing accounts in 1Password?
1P_Dave
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ModeratorThanks for the ping! If a website offers a way to change the email address for your account then 1Password should offer to generate a masked email alias when you click into the "New email" field on the website. 1Password will then offer to update your existing login item for that website with the new masked email alias.
-Dave
@ 1P_Dave
So, going forward for a longtime 1Password user like me, the best thing to do is set up a Fastmail account so that I can use Masked Emails for new accounts, right? And it might also be possible to change usernames on old accounts. Anyway, the first step is to set up that Fastmail account?
- 1P_Dave
Yup! If you'd like to use masked email aliases then you can read more here: Use 1Password to create and manage Masked Emails in Fastmail
I hope that helps.
-Dave
@ 1P_Dave
That helps a lot. Thank you, Dave!
