Posted on 06/06/2013 12:51:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“If you want to avoid having your identity stolen, use long passwords that contain digits, punctuation and no recognizable words. Make up a different password for every Web site. And change all of your passwords every 30 days.”
Have these security pundits ever listened to themselves?
That advice is clearly unfollowable. I currently have account names and passwords for 87 Web sites (banks, airlines, blogs, shopping, e-mail, Facebook, Twitter). How is anyone — even a security professional — supposed to memorize 87 long, complex password strings, let alone remember which goes with which Web site?
So most people use the same password over and over again, and live with the guilt.
There are solutions. Most Mac and Windows Web browsers now offer to memorize passwords for you. But that feature doesn’t work on all Web sites, and is generally of little help when you pick up your phone or tablet. At that point, the only person you’ve locked out of all your online accounts is you.
The only decent solution is to install a dedicated password memorization program (like Roboform, KeyPass, LastPass, 1Password, and so on). Last week, one of the best was just improved: Dashlane, now at 2.0. It’s attractive, effective, loaded with timesaving features and available for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android — and it’s free.
Installation is quick. Dashlane works in Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox. It can import existing password “vaults” from rival programs.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I use password “groups”. And I vary the complexity of each “group” based on the sensitivity of the information the password protects.
I also store all of my work passwords in a password protected word document. It’s safe, though. The name of the document is “don’t open this”.
;-)
Let the government remember for you.
If you forget one of your passwords, just call the IRS and have them look it up in your file.
I liked using “special fonts” whenever I could. Not every site would allow them though.
Don’t worry. The fbi and the irs can get into your accounts and files. Just call them.
I just tape my passwords to the back of my keyboard.
+1
re: “The only decent solution is to install a dedicated password memorization program “
So, do you have to remember your password to access the password memorization program?
Tech BookMark.
Yeah... so use something easy to remember, like ABC123.
From the article, pg 2:
“In version 2.0, furthermore, you have the option of using two-factor authentication — fancy lingo for an extra layer of security. To unlock Dashlane, you have to enter your master password as well as a code that Dashlane texts to your phone.”
We have to have passwords to fill out forms on the Ambulance I volunteer for.
They make us change the passwords every month. It’s funny watching people trying to figure out what their password for this month is. Most of them have to write it on a slip of paper they carry in their wallets.
It’s a truly dumb system.
But the most stupid thing about it is that they have to sign the form with the mouse when it is finished LMAO. Some of the damndest signatures you ever saw.
“use long passwords that contain digits, punctuation and no recognizable words.”
I’ve always thought this advice makes it easier to pick out a password in a datastream.
They’d stand-out like a big zit on your nose.
Well, no matter what I type it turns up looking like little bitty dots, so I just use little bitty dots. Saves time.
Just rename the file something innocuous...like "maindb" and then stick a .dll extension on it. It will still open in Word as a doc file but is easily overlooked by anyone snooping.
Personally, I use a small, free program called PINS. It resides on a flash drive and can also sit on your hard drive. One password opens the vault where you store URLS with usernames/passwords...etc. When you make password changes, just update the PINS database file. It hasn't let me down in 8 years.
Inscript the passwords to the undersides of your eyelids and then look into a light bulb....
no no no
Tatoo the passwords.... in 3d.... to the roof of your mouf...and then read them with yer tongue...
Let’s see you mommy and daddy’s basement dwellin’ geeko nerdos defeat those....two.
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