I find myself doing the same thing a lot lately. Either I have way too many accounts that I have to keep track of at this point, or I'm just getting old. I have since resorted to listing down passwords (which have grave consequences when I forget them) on my smartphone and save that file with a password as well. At least I just have to remember one. I know the risks involved, but it's just too hard to remember all of them at any given time!
Keeping track of passwords is a real pain, Sharon. I've tested some of the password apps -- Dashlane and LastPass -- and find that these are pretty good, if you go in and tweak the default settings a bit. I'd never remember the passwords these apps generate (I've set the default to 12 characters, although I'm thinking an odd number might be better) but even still, if for some reason the app crashes or the company goes out of business, I'm up the creek without a paddle unless I back up all of the unencrypted passwords. And if I do that, I just defeated the whole purpose of having encrypted passwords.
is, "Don't use a password you've used X times before, or in the previous X months." So I have to keep coming up with new ones, which are then harder to remember for next time, which means that, more than likely, I'll have to generate *another* new password for that site the next time I use it, which may be a month or more in the future.
I'm really trying to avoid the passwords-on-a-sticky situation, but it's getting harder and harder.
I hope that was not the one hanging on the monitor or sticked under the keyboard (as if it makes it more hidden). Picture password will hopefully help unless they take the picture of the picture password and stick it to the side of computer.
I just found out the password for something (not mine) which is supposed to be secure. You could guess it in about three tries. Passwords are increasingly about going through the motions.
Oh no, not going there, @magneticnorth. I have always had a thing about eyes! In fact, for about eight years I wanted to be a vet -- until I watched a documentary where a vet performed surgery on an alligator's eye. That did it. I knew I couldn't touch an animal's eye. So I guess I'll have to keep taking my vitamins or writing coded notes in order to try to recall old-fashioned passwords!!
I certainly find the frequency with which I am having to request a password re-set increasing.
Which is why I think, on a personal level at least, that the most important thing to secure is your email—the one you use for accounts. In that case, is it best to use one email address for correspondence and several different ones for online accounts? That might help spread the risk, though it'll be hell to manage so many mailboxes. Not that I don't already have more than 10 myself.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
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