We've already seen examples of this erosion of trust in the case of LastPass recently, and now one of the other big password manager brands stands accused of not doing enough to prevent password theft.

Which is why trust in these applications is so important and why that trust can get dented when responses to security researcher concerns appear less than reassuring. This is why, and I return to my opening gambit, password managers are seen by so many, including myself and the Straight Talking Cyber team at Forbes, as essential.

With password reuse rife, and given the number of passwords we have it's hardly surprising, that unique, random, and complex passwords are key. Those who would wish to steal your money or data, be they your average cybercriminal or a state-sponsored team of hackers, look to credential compromise as a first port of call. Password managers are rightly seen by many security professionals as an essential part of your account takeover mitigation toolkit. To hit this target we use 1280x720 instead of HD, VBR 2 pass, 1.4MBit average data rate and audio encoded mono at 96k. * I have one client that needs most encoded programs to be lower than 50MB in size. 2 pass VBR is generally not worth the extra time it takes*. As long your encodes are set to reasonable datarates and you don't specifically need the absolute smallest possible encodes (file size).

Both usually provide better (or as good) encodes at significantly lower oevral file sizes than CBR (Constant Bitrate). It then uses this analysis data on the second pass when actually encoding to assign more 'bits' to the scenes that have (say) high complexity motion and less 'bits' to (say) static scenes with no or little motion.ġ pass VBR just encodes 'on the fly' and can't encode frames 'knowing' what's further long in the program.Įffectively 2 pass VBR will give you better encodes at a slightly lower datarate than 1 pass VBR. The first pass in a Variable Bitrate 2 pass encode is an analysis pass which looks at the video content of the program and looks for high motion, low motion and complexity.

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