Help me..I'm all passworded out!!!!

[Mus408]

Wife wanted to add the Roku thing to the TV. When I finally got it to work I had to access the computer and setup an account with of course another NEW password and a PIN number. All this just to watch TV
on top of the passwords for Comcast Xfinity to authorize the new unit.

That was my breaking point!!
We have sticky notes on the den wall with passwords to the world and heaven forbid you turn on the ceiling fan to which the switch has now been disconnected!
Wife has a novel sized book/ledger of all the passwords and PINS that are required to make changes or just to reboot if the power goes off....that's another hell.

The wife wants to remake the bathroom with new fixtures and I screamed HELL NO!
That pink 1960's toilet works fine plus the new unit may require a password or PIN to get the lid up for my safety and security...NO THANKS!

Really in today's world it's time for fingerprint access...SIMPLE!

After getting the Roku setup and working I was to darn tired to watch anything!

 

[mohavesam]

Really in today's world it's time for fingerprint access...SIMPLE!

Actually, no thanks. I don't want Apple or Microsoft employees or the Chinese cloud or the Godless Arabs to have my fingerprints!
Besides, the fingerprint access thing was hacked years ago. There was/is even an IR scanner appliance that read and stored fingerprints available for sale. Daughter had one while she worked in IT for the university. Cheap and portable.

I feel your pain. In a side slot in my desk safe there is a little $2.00 wire-bound notebook, that contains all our passwords and logins and info for all the emails and internet accounts that demand them. Even got around to using a revolving password system for those archaic "must change every six months" commands we get from the hellholes of the software world...

:?

 

[gramps]

Yeah, I have switched to finger print access (FPA)for multiple phone apps. Now it is almost time to upgrade, and APPLE is doing away with the FPA for facial recognition. What happens if you get mugged and your face is all swollen?
gramps

 

[RSIno1]

I snagged an old rolodex from work that nobody had used - guess it was too old school. Now it's got all my passwords. Easy to sort and/or replace.

 

[toysoldier]

The wife wants to remake the bathroom with new fixtures and I screamed HELL NO!
That pink 1960's toilet works fine plus the new unit may require a password or PIN to get the lid up for my safety and security...NO THANKS!

I haven't seen one quite that advanced, but that old toilet will surely work better than a new "water saver" that you have to flush multiple times to clear.

 

[Colonialgirl]

Should I mention my well worn little notebooks FULL of passwords?

 

[Pat-inCO]

I tend to look at what is being "protected" and decide from there.
If it is a low threat level (pink toilet being lowest :wink: ), I use the same
password for multiple devices.

I also use several passwords with variations (I have three as a base, and
then add prefix or suffix to them). The easiest for non critical "protection"
is something like q2w3e4r5 (look at the keys) which passes all verification
schemes, yet is easy to remember. You can also shift the starting key by
one position to get a new password.

One other option is to find a key sequence that is easy for you, that
produces a string of zero, zip, nada, meaning. You then can move that
key sequence around the keyboard and only have to remember the first
key. (WARNING WARNING WARNING - War Story):
When I was still working, I had passwords on 34 main-frame computers
with sign-ons that had all the authority you could get. Thus those passwords
HAD to be changed once per month. I started the key sequence set and
only had to remember the first key. After a few months of that, I put a
note on my white-board (as opposed to chalk board) that said Password=X,
with X being the current seed for my sequence. Took about a week before
our jim-dandy security team came screaming in one afternoon, with my
manager in tow, YELLING about the breach in security. I said "My userid
is xxxxxx, go ahead and log on. They tried two times (three times locked
you out for 30 minutes) and failed. I pushed them aside and logged on.
The first comment was "YOU USED OTHER KEYS!" I replied "Duh!"
My manager stood there and smiled. - - - End war story.

Passwords that have special meaning to you are the easiest to crack.
Pick a sequence that has no meaning, yet is easy for . . . you . . . to
remember, and you have very good security, and true simplicity. 8)

 

[blume357]

What gripes me is the rules some of these computer nerds have come up with when trying to create a password... at least one caps, and one number and even some require a special character.... and then because you have to have so many I have them all written out on one piece of paper that I put in a file.. then the paper got so full I started writing them on the file folder... Last week I broke down and spent some time compiling all of them and putting them back on one page via the computer.. so, now saved in my computer are all my passwords..... and how secure is this? The other thing that amazes me is when ever I open one of these password protected accounts my computer automatically saves the log in name and password so that I don't have to input it the next time... now how secure is all this?

 

[Jimbo357mag]

I keep a document on the computer with all my ID passwords and such. It is pretty much two clicks away. I print that document out for a hard copy once in a while when enough new stuff is added.

 

[hittman]

I keep a document on the computer with all my ID passwords and such. It is pretty much two clicks away. I print that document out for a hard copy once in a while when enough new stuff is added.

^ ^ This ^ ^

 

[Fox Mike]

We have passwords that are different for everything but put them in plain sight. I too have a sheet or two of passwords that are presently sitting under the keyboard I am using to type this reply. I tried one that simple said "open this" and it didn't work. No cap, no number, no character, and had a space. Below might help explain how to devise a password.

CORPORATE DIRECTIVE NUMBER 88-570471
In order to increase the security of all company computing facilities, and to avoid the possibility of unauthorized use of these facilities, new rules are being put into effect concerning the selection of passwords. All users of computing facilities are instructed to change their passwords to conform to these rules immediately. RULES FOR THE SELECTION OF PASSWORDS: 1. A password must be at least six characters long, and must not contain two occurrences of a character in a row, or a sequence of two or more characters from the alphabet in forward or reverse order. Example: HGQQXP is an invalid password. GFEDCB is an invalid password. 2. A password may not contain two or more letters in the same position as any previous password. Example: If a previous password was GKPWTZ, then NRPWHS would be invalid because PW occurs in the same position in both passwords. 3. A password may not contain the name of a month or an abbreviation for a month. Example: MARCHBC is an invalid password. VWMARBC is an invalid password. 4. A password may not contain the numeric representation of a month. Therefore, a password containing any number except zero is invalid. Example: WKBH3LG is invalid because it contains the numeric representation for the month of March. 5. A password may not contain any words from any language. Thus, a password may not contain the letters A, or I, or sequences such as AT, ME, or TO because these are all words. 6. A password may not contain sequences of two or more characters which are adjacent to each other on a keyboard in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal direction. Example: QWERTY is an invalid password. GHNLWT is an invalid password because G and H are horizontally adjacent to each other. HUKWVM is an invalid password because H and U are diagonally adjacent to each other. 7. A password may not contain the name of a person, place, or thing. Example: JOHNBOY is an invalid password. Because of the complexity of the password selection rules, there is actually only one password which passes all the tests. To make the selection of this password simpler for the user, it will be distributed to all supervisors. All users are instructed to obtain this password from his or her supervisor and begin using it immediately.

 

[vito]

The reality is that longer passwords are more secure than short passwords. Think of sentences that you can remember, such as "babyhaspinkcheeks" or something like that. For some key things I use a sequence of gun model numbers/letters that is easy for me to remember. For things like web forums, I use one or two simple passwords for many different accounts.

 

[A.J.]

Easy fix. I keep all my passwords in a small book.

If I have to change a password, I usually just change the last 2 characters.

For making passwords, I usually do something like this: LowerCase123*** It's a mix of upper case, lower case, numbers and special characters.

 

[Mus408]

Well I got to enjoy Hickok45 on the big screen this morning...all is well!

 

[protoolman]

Are you saying that the gun club lock is too easy to hack? We change it every year. From 3006 to 4570 to 3030 etc. :lol:

 

[Mus408]

Are you saying that the gun club lock is too easy to hack? We change it every year. From 3006 to 4570 to 3030 etc. :lol:

Like!

 

[RalphS]

what you need is PasswordSafe

https://pwsafe.org/

 

[Fox Mike]

One thing that I do is use the same basic password for various forums, but for our bank and such, our passwords are much more complex and varied.

 

[caryc]

What I use and love is a program called "Lastpass". It will keep your passwords in it's vault and you only need to know the master password to access any site. It doesn't actually use that master password, it uses a password that it made up for the site. It's made up password may look something like this rouGkf^90#%^fvS3!@kl.

Even the program Lastpass doesn't know your master password so it better be something you won't forget.

When you go to a new site and register a new password, Lastpass will make up a password for you if you want to let it. It will be something like what I posted above that no one in the world is going to crack. It will then auto log you into that site using that long password whenever you go there. It takes a little figuring out and getting used to but it's a great program. If you want to, you can print out a list of those sites and passwords that Lastpass generated for you.

You can have Lastpass auto log you in to your sites or not, it's up to you. Or you can open your lastpass vault and click on the site you want to open and it will ask you for the master password. It's really versatile.

 

[Cape Cod Terry]

one secure easy password model I use is old phone numbers with the word prefix they used to use like BUtterfield8-3709. It combines caps,punctuation and numerals. I still remember my childhood phone #s in that format,even my grandparents. Old guys will remember this but anyone could make up an alphanumeric based on a remembered phone #. The phone company came up with that originally because they thought people couldn't remember a 7 digit number.