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How many passwords/PIN no.s do you use?

  • 06-11-2009 12:12pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭


    Ive just counted 15 that i use off the top of my head-various email accounts,banking,phone etc. Maybe its old age but im finding i cant remember the fecking things anymore (it took me 3 attempts this morn to login here :o)

    Im reluctant to have it as all the same one but at the rate im goin ill be frozen out of half my accounts if i keep forgetting them.

    Same prob anyone?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    No comment for security reasons. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    For internet sites and the likes I always use the same.

    Here it is:
    You muppett!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    Jeez, must be around 90, i dunno how I function from day to day tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I use four passwords:

    password123
    password%
    drowssap
    anonoboyisgreat

    And the following PIN:

    1234


    They've served me well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,763 ✭✭✭Jax Teller


    I have a life password , it's were u use the same pin or password for almost everything :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I have a life password , it's were u use the same pin or password for almost everything :)

    That's so sensible. :)

    Nothing could go wrong with that plan.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,763 ✭✭✭Jax Teller


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    That's so sensible. :)

    Nothing could go wrong with that plan.

    Unless sumones gets it and I'm fcuked "proper fcuked "


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    About 4 passwords of varying security for different things, and maybe 5 PINs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    8526.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭Rob_l


    I dont use passwords I lock my pc to my desk its safer


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  • Moderators Posts: 12,396 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    Ive a new password for every site. Keeps things fresh! PINs are whatever im given.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A unique one for every site!

    I used to have a common one, but one of the sites was cracked and pw stolen and used to spam another site, never again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Generally the same one for non important sites.
    Pin for bank card and credit card are all the same

    I work on about 4 different sites and trying to remember all my login details and about a bajillion admin passwords for different stuff is really annoying. Then in work email and login passwords have to be changed once a month and different to the last 10 so they are getting abscure now.

    Why can't everything just accept my fingerprint?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,763 ✭✭✭Jax Teller


    I must say i have more problems remembering my username rather den my passwords


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    alot.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,973 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Around 6 or 7.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭DO'Carlo/Wex


    Boards, AFR, CC, Pass Card, 3 E-Mails Adys, PPs Online, Daft, YouTube, Bebo, Jobs, Play, E-Bay, PayPay, Vodafone, Tesco, Publicjobs, Eastside, Justin, VIP, Twitter, Amazon, Facebook, CDExpress, Discogs, CDWow, Ticketmaster, Banking-365 x 2.
    THINK that's all sites I use a password & username on.
    Generally ondly vary & deviate the password slightly from site to site.
    When I first started work, I usedta have to set an alarm code leaving my house, then there was a code to be entered to open electric gates, then another to open work gates, then another to employee gates, then another for alarm, had one for my phone at time too, when I went home for lunch, had a different code to unset the alarm. On top of my PIN for Bank Card.
    Then I started registring for stuff online.
    Difficult to remember them all. Thank God for Password Reminders & PW Reminder Questions.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    I tend to use the same one for all my interwebz accounts and then theres my pin and bank code so not many. My head doesnt retain information well


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 307 ✭✭artielange


    I refuse to use them I just go from computer to computer seeing if anyone is logged in and use thiers' got to go this jerk off usually isn't back till 2.................


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 267 ✭✭waitinforatrain


    I have a password for accounts I don't care about (this included), a password for sensitive stuff like my email address, and a password for those sites that require with 2 uppercase letters, 2 numbers and 2 hebrew characters.

    What people don't realise is that it only takes one bored admin 10 minutes to start grabbing peoples passwords.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 804 ✭✭✭yerayeah


    I've about 7 I think, no problem remembering any of them...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    I use a different PIN for my ATM/Credit Cards, different passwords/usernames for all sites I subscribe to. Never forgot any of them, except once when I forgot my credit card's PIN in a hotel... Was nearly arrested for using a 'stolen' card!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    Use a different one for everything that requires a login.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Around 12 different passwords for different things, I've only got a debit card so just 1 pin for that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    alot

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭I_am_Jebus


    I used to have different ones for every interweb account I held but lately I've had to cut it down to 4 or 5. Don't know whether it's because I am getting older or all the years pubbing and clubbing but I can't remember them all anymore. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,217 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    Biggins wrote: »
    No comment for security reasons. :)
    looks like a comment to me :)

    18 at last count I think


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭D


    Mid twenties, the longest and most complex one is over thirty characters long containing random numbers, letters and symbols.

    Edit: and its changed regularly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭I_am_Jebus


    D wrote: »
    Mid twenties, the longest and most complex one is over thirty characters long containing random numbers, letters and symbols.

    Edit: and its changed regularly.

    Fair play, you must have some memory


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Cadiz


    Gripped with a certain paranoia about identity theft, I therefore have a different password for everything: phone, bank, internet bank, ATM, emails etc.

    The net result has been many, many confused drunken episodes of keying my phone password into the ATM, angrily failing to get any money, forgetting which of my nine passwords accesses what etc etc. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    One super long, completely random (completely random as in I had it randomly generated, not "omg that's soooo randumz") one for email.
    One almost as long for regular sites.
    Then a shorter one still for places that won't let me have a password as long as the above.

    I figure no-one can possibly ever get my email pass without either hacking GMail entirely (and either recording login attempts or somehow working it out, I imagine it's encrypted), and if I somehoe lose one of the others I can just get it reset on the sites from my email.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    I have a few, I got an email this morning for a nice chap in Nigeria, he was telling me about Identity theft and how easy it is to guess alot of passwords. For $50 he is generating me a whole new set of passwords matching the biometric data on my password, All I had to do was wire him the $50 via Western Union and send him my passwords and scan of passport. Talk about deal of the day. I can sleep sound tonight knowing tomorrow I will have a new set of uncrackable passwords.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    I`m the only living person that knows the password on my pc :D
    All my stuff is safe , i think! lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    Every card has a different pin. I have about 20 passwords that I can remember fairly handy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Stargate wrote: »
    I`m the only living person that knows the password on my pc :D
    All my stuff is safe , i think! lol

    If it's just a windows password then no, you are most definitely not safe. Then again it is safe from your average nosy sibling, just not anyone with IT knowledge or google and some spare time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    Cadiz wrote: »
    I therefore have a different password for everything: phone, bank, internet bank, ATM, emails etc.

    The net result has been many, many confused drunken episodes of keying my phone password into the ATM (

    Same here Cadiz , i know the feeling :D


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