I rarely passwords except for sites that forces me to have one and that is too much already. I use an address I used to live at about 10 years ago for the numeric part then another formula for the letters.
Well, I wish passwords werent an issue but I need many of them for various reasons. I dont want to have all of them the same because if one is figured out then it is easy for someone to get into everything.
I carry my external hard drive with me and I think that I put on an easy password to remember but I must be getting old because all I do is mix it up with all the others Oh well, no real way to get around it.
Well, I wish passwords werent an issue but I need many of them for various reasons. I dont want to have all of them the same because if one is figured out then it is easy for someone to get into everything.
I carry my external hard drive with me and I think that I put on an easy password to remember but I must be getting old because all I do is mix it up with all the others Oh well, no real way to get around it. </div></div>
Well devise a system with at least seven Alphanumeric Characters
Use a system to determine four numbers: your old address plus device #1/2/3/4/etc
Combination of the first initial of your mom's maiden name and your dad's middle name or stuff along those lines!
i have nearly everything keyed to the exact same password (its something really obscure, in an ancient, foreign language, with symbols AND numbers) -- with only a few variations for a few accounts.
i have an Excel spreadsheet listing everything, saved on each machine i use at home and work
but! - the spreadsheet is "coded" - the usernames & passwords are only an 'abbreviated code' so "I" know which one it is, but even if somone ever got hold of my spreadsheet, the usernames and passwords are not useable to actually log-in to anything
so i only have to memorize and rememeber the "main" Windows log-in, then once I'm in, i can refer to the spreadsheet if needed
okay I am glad you added this "but" part
<span style="font-weight: bold">the spreadsheet is "coded" - the usernames & passwords are only an 'abbreviated code' so "I" know which one it is</span>
this will actually work for me. I just need a nudge sometimes to remember a password so I dont have to record the entire string in the spreadsheet. I can store it on my external hard drive for when I am not at my own PC and need access to certain files thanks
I lost one of my external hard drives the other day before I password encrypted it so now I am so paranoid about putting passwords on my files because I can get sued if I lose some of the info on it. Most files are encrypted but not all because it is soooo hard to remember them and i need to be able to access my files
Only good thing is that I know it is lost somewhere in my house I'll find it 2 years from now like I did a pair of sunglasses I bought. Yes, I am sometimes a complete idiot!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Have you ever thought about just having a protected password vault on a thumb-drive that you can easily carry around? </div></div>
My external drive (Seagate) is password protected but I dont have a password vault on it. So you are saying I can put the password vault software on the external drive for reference, or should that be stored separately on a flash drive?
You can do either. The problem is that, the external hard drive is bulkier and not always convenient to carry around, as opposed to a tiny thumb type flash drive. There hundreds of password storage programs out there that encrypts and will even close itself after a short time, if you forget it open and walk away from your computer. For example: eWallet is one such program.
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Oh well, no real way to get around it.
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