Select a short sentence from an obscure book you know.
Thanks for posting this. It will make updating my passwords easier.
Don’t use “Awesome Passprhase”
Fine, as long as I DON’T HAVE TO CHANGE THE DAMNED thing all the time.
InfoSec types should be reminded that computers are supposed to be used by people, and people just aren’t going to change some long passphrase every few weeks or months. I swear that some of my fellow IT folks wouldn’t be happy unless they yanked the hard drives out of all computers, shot them repeatedly with a .50 Barrett, encased them in lead and sank them in the Marinas trench, after physically cutting all the cables connecting the computer to either power or network.
Our IT geeks make us change passwords several times a year.
Between Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Home Depot, Lowes and 30 other places, I must have several hundred passwords.
And they all have different rules. No consecutive letters, no consecutive numbers, at least 1 capital letter, at least 1 lower case letter, numbers and punctuation, but only their allowed punctuation and sometimes no special characters allowed.
I long for the days of just 1234.
I switched to using LastPass - an app/web browser plugin which will store all your passwords in the cloud (kinda risky) but also generate random passwords for you and auto fill them.
Combined with work I was having to keep up with over several dozen passwords. We’re talking websites requiring real security (credit cards, banks, online accounts, etc) and I just couldn’t keep up anymore. Especially with my work accounts requiring changing every 4 months.
Password managers are becoming a necessity.
One of my college professors used “secret” as his password.
Also the use of asterisks in place of being able to see what you typed- I mean it makes (some) sense in an environment where someone else might see it, but NONE if the screen is in my room or office; it should be able to be turned off.
This is what arcane and difficult password rules result in. Less security but the illusion of more. IT departments, take not.
OU812.
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You can create a password containing only things you would know, like “first person I kissed + last 4 digits of phone# of friend who gave me sword for Christmas”. That way, you can write it down somewhere without it being easy for somebody to figure out your password if he comes upon your cheat sheet.
I used to play the horses, and for a long time I would use the names of horses as passwords. It made choosing a password less of a chore. I don’t gamble anymore, so I don’t use horse names these days. Now I just use names of bands. Not as much fun.
Uv39$126V@41577*
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Places you have lived ex. 1313_Mockingbird!Lane
Old phone numbers ex. HighPoint!3362821134
Albums and the year they came out ex. Yes!Fragile#1972
Things having to do with the interface 1998!Fr00Republ2c
Places you lived and when you lived there ex. 1978!GodwinHall#223
Some ideas (taken from a few buttons I have had):
Tight butts drive me nuts! (are you reading this George Takei?)
We cheat tourists and drunks! (perfect for swamp dwellers!)
Hmmm...I wonder if “Deckthehallswithboughrsofhorryfarararararararara” would work.