Sad Sad day
I have to abandon one of my passwords – someone accidentally saw it when typeahead was behaving slowly… One of the ones that I use in lots of places. It’s a sad sad day.
I’ve been using that password (and various forms of it) for well over a decade. I guess I’ll have to ressurect an old one, or come up with a new one or something. :(
Fortunately it’s not one of my “secure” passwords – I’ve got various levels of password security – I can usually guess which one I used based on my opinion of how secure it needs to be. Still, it’ll take me a while to change it everywhere that I use it. I really want some sort of identity dongle that I can carry around and use instead of remembering passwords and typing them in. Even some sort of thumbprint scanner, It’s not like the stuff most passwords are protecting are that valuable though.
Simpson’s quote of the day: “Hehe, you don’t have a son” – Homer (to Bart)
November 27th, 2003 at 2:20 pm
Dave says he knows your password, he says it’s ‘Greg’
November 27th, 2003 at 3:44 pm
I seem to cycle my old U of S passwords, tho I think I’m now onto variations of those old passwords. Not sure what it is about them, I always found the U of S generated passwords easy to remember.
November 30th, 2003 at 3:55 pm
Now THAT is pretty freaky, dude :P I tend to think up a word that does exist, and start swapping numbers with letters. They’re usually pretty secure :P
December 1st, 2003 at 7:49 am
another secure way is to use a familiar word but move your right or left hand one character. One needs to check to make sure the software will accept ,;[ in the password and then add some numbers.