Remember your Password? Pick One Easy to Remember?

16 years ago

I just counted all my accounts - 54.

There are 20 passwords; 32 User ID's.

There are a variety of requirements for passwords so it's impossible to use the same one for all.

Only one has a gizmo with a 60 second code to type in which I keep on my desk. If they all had one of those - well the mind boggles.

Only one (Treasurey Direct) uses a virtual keyboard with a changing format.

That doesn't even touch the "secret" questions.

My list sits easily to hand. The chance of someone messing with it are vanishingly small.

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DA_Mccoy
16 years ago
Duplicate passwords and/or usernames on sensative websites; i.e. web shopping, financial or medical, are an invitation for disaster. Being a lazy user is not the way to proceed.

As I reported on another thread, many sites are now requiring a minimum of eight characters with at least one numeric. In addition, some are requiring a capital letter or a miscellaneous character; i.e. $,%,#.

In the financial realm, some sites demand a password change every six months, and have a protocol that three consecutive log-in errors and the user is locked out of the account.

I agree that a breach using an at-home hard copy list is absolutely minute.

DA
ginny12
16 years ago
I have 117 passwords with who knows how many user names and secret questions. I never use the same one twice or my mother's maiden name, which the whole world must know by now. Genealogy has been great in opening up many new family names--all long dead--to use.

They are all on a handwritten doc. The only very bad omission is that I have not photocopied this doc and put it in the safe deposit box. Maybe confession to all of you will get me to finally do that critical step.
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DA_Mccoy
16 years ago
Smart Lady. Ginny I will bug you until you get it done.

DA
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
good article
Hello passphrase, goodbye password
vala55
16 years ago
Raven, I don't see how passphrase would be any better than random numbers and letters would be. You would have to remember the sentence for each site then the combination you used, no one can do that. I would think that just using a jumble of letters and numbers would be easier. Maybe I am missing something. I write passwords down. I don't have the security problem lots of people do because no one touches the PC but me. I do not keep them on the PC and I do hide them.
mxyplx
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16 years ago
My grandmother would have said, "goot ottical".

Pity the poor typist like me that typically types every 3rd word 3-4 times. A complicated random combination becomes a nightmare. Example: Original of above sentence:

Pity the prro typist like me that typesd the woprds secverakl toinwes be forea geting it corrent

I've come to accept my disability but a complicated password becomes a chore beyond all. As a student typist in my prime (age 12) I was able to achieve 10 words per minute ---before mistakes. Wouldn't let us look at the keys. One of my sisters was a professional piano player and she looked at the key board. Why couldn't I look at the stupid typewriter?

I can, however, type my name and address to beat hell.

Some years ago we had a visitor I didn't want to see. Wife told em I was busy and I sat at my desk typing name-n-address over repeatedly; on a real type writer. Clatter clatter clatter bing thunk. The ruse workrd. Uh. workt? )^)&**(&^%!!!
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Mxyplx, remember the horror movie, 'The Shining?'
"All work and no play make Jack a dull boy."

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DA_Mccoy
16 years ago
Ginny,

Did you make your copy yet?

DA
ginny12
16 years ago
No--but at least it is much on my mind since I posted. Construction going on here and general chaos so I keep putting it off. Thank you for the reminder.
DA_Mccoy
16 years ago
Your welcome. Just let me know when its done so I don't needlessly bug you. :)

DA

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