Comments on: Password Grief

By: Tara Kelly

Tara Kelly — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:33:22 +0000

What you probably need is a password manager - like the index card, but locked up like Fort Knox and stored on the web so you can get at them regardless of whether or not you empty out the temporary files.

Here’s a (getting old but still good) post on why you need a password manager: http://tinyurl.com/38jxny

@crickl’s nest — careful, that email folder is not encrypted, and its hosted on a machine that’s run by people you don’t know. Your passwords are ripe for the picking.

@stevieb — keyboard combinations are among the first to be cracked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking#Guessing (check the next to last bullet point)

Sorry to be a bummer.

Cheers,
Tara

By: stevieb

stevieb — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:36:17 +0000

here’s a trick I’ve been using for years - don’t bother with the destination of your first trip after high school or your mother’s father’s cat’s name -

just find some random keystrokes that easy for you to remember right in front of you everytime you go to type them in.

1qwe32

or 9ijn9ijn

when websites make you change it, just go backwards

works like a charm and no one, I mean, no one can hack it because it doesn’t come from anyplace in your actual life. There’s no guessing it.

good luck.

By: crickl's nest

crickl's nest — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:23:56 +0000

My computer keeps track of all of my online passwords. And when I use a different computer or it loses my cookies *ew*, I have them all emailed to myself. I have on online email address (yahoo) that I can check from anywhere, it is not stored in my computer, and have a folder created just for this kind of information. It works!

By: McMama

McMama — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:35:38 +0000

Sounds like you need this! But then where do you store your key code???