| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| jema |
passwordsI'm engaging in a round of password changing. A painful exercise in my case as I have so many things with passwords.I do have my own systems for knowing them all without having a list of the things written down, but it is a tough issue. Has anyone any password management tips they use to make life easier whilst keeping thing secure? |
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| sally_in_wales |
I could do with watching the suggestions here too, I'm currently terrified to change my laptop because the password to the admin area of my shop is 'remembered' by my computer, but isnt what I thought it was when I tried to log in from somewhere else a while ago. No obvious reset function anywhere either 
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| Cathryn |
Mine is "never click the remember button" for that very reason. | ||
| wipka84 |
I know someone who uses a password that requires it to be changed on a regular basis.
All he does is increment a number contained within the password by one. Therefore a new password is generated and all he has to do is remember which number he is up to. |
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| judith |
As I am much more word-oriented than number-oriented, I always choose a memorable word and change some of the letters to numbers. For example BUSINESS would become BU51NE55.
I just select words at random every now and again. |
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| Gervase |
Me too. I have a laptop that requires a password change every 21 days, and I usually use an alphanumeric. Last one was M0nkeybum, which I promptly forgot and had to get the techies to reset. Prior to that I'd worked my way around the coast substituting 0 for o, 4 for a, 5 for s and 3 for e in various place names. | ||
| random |
I use 1password now i'm on a mac, used to use roboform when on a pc, that way you get the best of both worlds a strong encrypted password for every site you visit and you still only have to remember one. | ||
| Gervase |
Thanks for that - I'll give 1password a try. |
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| Barefoot Andrew |
I too have all sorts of different passwords - usually obscure alphanumeric strings - and also change them periodically.
Trouble is, I can remember them all without any actual effort. That's not very helpful is it? 
A. |
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| vegplot |
I keep a list of passwords in a safe at home, whose combination is in a safe at work whose combination is in the safe at home. |
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| sean |
I just use my mother's maiden name followed by my credit card number. | ||
| James |
The worst passwords are the ones that I only use very infrequently, but need regular updates.
There's a system at work that I log into about once a month, which needs a new password every 28 days. So every time I log into it, I need a new password. Becuase I only ever use the password once, I havent got a cat in hells chance of remembering it, so when I come to renew it, it invariably tells me I've already used that password. |
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| bring me sunshine |
I have many different systems for choosing passwords.
Sometimes I think of two people and put the nickname for one with the birth date of another e.g. hels1june Or I might think of a sporting idol from my childhood and substitute numbers/symbols for letters e.g. j0hnwh1t@k3r&m1lt0n |
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| Emyr |
Substituting numbers for letters doesn't add add any significant amount of entropy.
There are seldom upper limits for passowords: use a sentence if you find it easier to remember. |
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| marigold |
I mostly use the registration numbers of cars I used to own, then my list of passwords just reads "renault reg no" "golf reg no" etc. Sometimes I add on an extra digit or letter which I note down, but it's meningless without the rest of the registration number. | ||
| lottie |
I'm impressed  ---I can't remember the registration of the car I'm driving now 
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| James |
I cant even remember the reg. of the car I currently own, let alone previous cars. (Lottie- didnt see your post....great minds think alike) |
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| oliveoyl |
There are programmes you can download to retrieve saved passwords... have a look on here http://download.cnet.com/windows/ to see if there's one that suits your system/browser. |
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| Fee |
I'm in the middle of a round of password changes too, bloody hate it!
I have a few basic passwords that I use for website logins that hold nothing secure or owt like that, they're just real words with numbers replacing the odd letter or added to the middle, but many of my other passwords are real words spelled incorrectly with some digits replacing letters, and often with numbers on the end too. For customers, I generate passwords from here among other places. As for storing them, I'm afraid that'd be telling! |
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| toggle |
i'm moving onto sentences, strange things i say to my kids are the order of the day right now.
nummynummytummy- sort of thing |
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| Chez |
I use the kid's names and then my phone number 
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