Passwords. Passwords everywhere... sick of them!

Oink

I've just counted how many passwords I need to remember. It's getting ridiculous. I came up with 21. TWENTY ONE FLIPPIN PASSWORDS:

Work: 6
Pers. mail: 3
Boards.ie and the likes: 3
Money/bills (banking, BB, amazon, etc.): 7
FB, daft: 2

I've given up. Life's too short. I remember 9. The rest I just reset every time I need them.

The ones that do my head in are the ones that are clearly there so the website can count users etc. for ads purposes.

How are ye all coping?

The Backwards Man

My password for everything is 'Forgot Password?'

Alf. A. Male

I've none, I never use the internet.

Kimbot

21? Thats not that many at all :P

In work I have at least 50+ to remember.
Forums: Roughly 25
Social Networking: 4/5
Banking: 2
Bills: 2
Codes for Gates Etc: 15
Online Shops: 20+

Theres probably a lot more. Most of the time I cant even remember what I done a few hours ago but every last password I use sticks in my brain for some reason haha

Mr. CooL ICE

I was fixing a problem on my Dads computer and he needed a password for something eReader related. He couldn't remember it and then said "you're probably gonna kill me when you see this". He opened a word document hidden deep in the file directory that had a list of all his site logins and passwords. To be honest, I couldn't give out to him as there are far worse things he could have done.

jester77

I have one password and a password manager. Makes life easier and is more secure as the passwords it generates are one off and a mix of 20 characters, numbers and special characters. Have a look at 1password (my favaourite) or lastpass.

Manzoor14

I use LastPass for most of non-important ones like Daft and Adverts and some forums. Handy little tool!

Maximus Alexander

The best thing to do is write them all down on a piece of old fashioned paper and put it somewhere safe in your house. Secure passwords are important because of the risk of them being cracked electronically. It's highly unlikely that anyone is going to search your home for passwords to online sites.

retalivity

I only have a couple that I rotate for different sites. Makes it easier to remember that its one of 5 rather than 1 of 50.

I also really like the boards automatic password detector which masks passwords that people inadvertently type like *********
really cool safety feature

fergiesfolly

I run the password off the username, the username off the ID number and the ID number off the password.
Never had any problems.

JumpShivers

I generally use the same password for everything.... I have loads of accounts on loads of websites though. :eek:

Alun

+1 for LastPass.

uch

https://howsecureismypassword.net/


Check how secure your Password is.

Reedsie

I use the same ones for a lot of the less important sites. I might start using LastPass for these.

I use 2 step verification for the more important sites (where possible). An 'Authenticator' app on my phone generates a specific code (which changes every 30 seconds or so) which must be entered when logging in from a different computer. Am no expert but it seems like a pretty good system to me.

o1s1n

What drives me mad is having to change my password in work every 8 weeks or so.

It can't be a password I've used before. I've been here 6 years and have run out of new ideas!

Reedsie

uch wrote: »

https://howsecureismypassword.net/


Check how secure your Password is.

It would take a desktop PC about
25 thousand years
to crack your password

That should do!

brevity

I can deal with most but Verified by Visa bugs the crap out of me.

Antar Bolaeisk

uch wrote: »

https://howsecureismypassword.net/


Check how secure your Password is.

For some reason I just can't bring myself to trust sites like that, I always think of them as a way of collating a list of commonly used passwords (not that we need it any more).

o1s1n wrote: »

What drives me mad is having to change my password in work every 8 weeks or so.

It can't be a password I've used before. I've been here 6 years and have run out of new ideas!

Have you tried just incrementing the number by 1, eg Mypet'sname[n+1] (Making sure the first letter is uppercase of course).

sadie06

I have no idea whether this is a safe method, but most of my passwords are the same, barring two unique letters at the front. So, Tw******* for Twitter, Fb******* for Facebook etc.

Reedsie

sadie06 wrote: »

I have no idea whether this is a safe method, but most of my passwords are the same, barring two unique letters at the front. So, Tw******* for Twitter, Fb******* for Facebook etc.

Probably less safe now that you posted it...



I'd imagine if someone cracked one, say your facebook one, it wouldn't be rocket science to figure out the rest.

B_Rabbit

It's mad how boards blocks out your password when you type it: ********

Quin_Dub

uch wrote: »

https://howsecureismypassword.net/


Check how secure your Password is.

Apparently, it would take a desktop PC 64,000 years to break my password...

Of course a GPU based cracker would have it in about 5 seconds...but hey...

Lenin Skynard

sadie06 wrote: »

I have no idea whether this is a safe method, but most of my passwords are the same, barring two unique letters at the front. So, Tw******* for Twitter, Fb******* for Facebook etc.

Good idea actually.

sadie06

Paddy_R wrote: »

Probably less safe now that you posted it...

The body of it is so random, I'd like to think I'm ok, but I could be fooling myself! :-)

Antar Bolaeisk

sadie06 wrote: »

I have no idea whether this is a safe method, but most of my passwords are the same, barring two unique letters at the front. So, Tw******* for Twitter, Fb******* for Facebook etc.

That's a bad idea, all it would take would be for one of your passwords to be compromised for them all to be be compromised. You may as well not bother with the change at all as it provides neglible benefit.

B_Rabbit wrote: »

It's mad how boards blocks out your password when you type it: ********

That's gas: ****************************

Very considerate of them.

PizzamanIRL

My password is generally the same for everything except a capital letter here or there or a number added or left out. Depends on the site's requirements.

Also I use my favourite Italian word for my personal email. Not hard to remember at all.

nc19

Are we not all still using 1234????

carbsy

I use the configurable pwgen add on for Firefox to create secure passwords and have one master password then on Firefox. I know this is just for websites, but if it helps someone...

Antar Bolaeisk

nc19 wrote: »

Are we not all still using 1234????

Most places need a minimum of 8 characters nowadays.

sadie06

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

My password is generally the same for everything except a capital letter here or there or a number added or left out. Depends on the site's requirements.

Also I use my favourite Italian word for my personal email. Not hard to remember at all.

principessa

That's my guess!

Blowfish

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

Good idea actually.

Not really. If the site/password is compromised, it wouldn't take a genius to work out what your other passwords are likely to be. It needs to be reasonably random, or just use a password manager as mentioned above

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Also I use my favourite Italian word for my personal email. Not hard to remember at all.

It's also not very hard to crack either. Dictionary attacks (i.e. trying every word in the dictionary in various languages) are extremely common.

Paddy_R wrote: »

That should do!

heh,

It would take a desktop PC about
763 nonillion years
to crack your password

sadie06

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

That's a bad idea, all it would take would be for one of your passwords to be compromised for them all to be be compromised. You may as well not bother with the change at all as it provides neglible benefit.

I thought as much. If it was a great idea, everyone would be doing it!

danniemcq

I use hunter2 on crappy sites that i just need a quick thing for.

Wazdakka

uch wrote: »

https://howsecureismypassword.net/


Check how secure your Password is.

Oh Wow....
That is just GENIUS...

I am absolutely starting one of those sites..

"please just insert your password here...
Then your email address...

We promise to mail you a detailed report of exactly just how secure your account details are."

frozenfrozen

Just make 5-10 different passwords. then start compounding them for the more important stuff. boards gets its own pass, other forums all have their own, then gmail password is like 40 characters long because its a mix of all those passwords one after another, and paypal then is a different order of that, with an extra bit on the end..

Passwords are only as good as your recovery questions. If your first dogs name doesn't have at least 3 special characters, you're doing it wrong

I have two main "base" passwords one for work and one that I use for everything else, similar to another poster I just add the base password to the name of the site I'm using it on to make the password different for all sites.

It might not be overly secure but its too much effort and too easy to forget of I have different passwords for everything.

Online baking also has a different one alright obviously.

Maximus Alexander

I have four different words and number sequences that I assemble in different ways, with variations in capitalization. There are still too many possible variants so it catches me out sometimes, but most times I can remember what way I put them together for a particular site.

gufnork

Paddy_R wrote: »

That should do!

howsecureismypassword =

It would take a desktop PC about
4 trillion years
to crack your password

Jolly good then...

GhostInTheRuins

I used to use the same password for everything except for online banking. I knew it was very poor practice but I couldn't bring myself to make loads of different passwords that I'd never remember. I bought 1password a few weeks ago and it's brilliant, I only need one password for the app, and along with icloud keychain I've got very secure passwords for everything and I'll never need to remember them. Great app!

sgthighway

gufnork wrote: »

howsecureismypassword =

It would take a desktop PC about
4 trillion years
to crack your password

Jolly good then...

It would take a desktop PC about
5 quadrillion years
to crack your password

I don't even know how long that is.

Maximus Alexander

gufnork wrote: »

howsecureismypassword =

It would take a desktop PC about
4 trillion years
to crack your password

Jolly good then...

But if Moore's Law holds and you don't change your password, that will be down to only 500 million in less than 20 years.

bnt

jester77 wrote: »

I have one password and a password manager. Makes life easier and is more secure as the passwords it generates are one off and a mix of 20 characters, numbers and special characters. Have a look at 1password (my favaourite) or lastpass.

Ditto - I use Keepass X, save the encrypted file in the Dropbox folder, it gets synced to my phone, and it loads in the Keepass app on there too. I should start using it at work too, the number of systems we have to use and remember is insane.

Antar Bolaeisk

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Passwords are only as good as your recovery questions. If your first dogs name doesn't have at least 3 special characters, you're doing it wrong

Where were you born: Yellow
What's your favourite colour: Trampoline
Your mother's maiden name: Timbuktu

HeidiHeidi

I gave up years ago, acquired a notebook and keep it in an out-of-the-way place in my house with an up-to-date list of all passwords.

Have lost count of the amount of passwords I need - in work at one point I needed three - one of which had to be changed every 4 weeks, one every 8 weeks and one ever 3 months. And they wouldn't let you use a word even similar to one you'd used in the previous 12 months. My head was melted with it - and that was just work!

I mostly use variations of the same two words, with numbers/capitals/repeats as required.

If anyone ever finds that notebook, I'm a gonner :eek:

gufnork

My passwords are stored in a .doc file. It's currently just over 8 pages long, single spaced.

HeidiHeidi

gufnork wrote: »

My passwords are stored in a .doc file. It's currently just over 8 pages long, single spaced.

But what happens if you have a brainstorm and forget the password to get into wherever that .doc file is stored :eek:

Pen n paper is yer only man!









(until it's found, or falls into the fire, obviously)

Timmehhh

Well, there are really good applications you can use that SAVES the passwords, AUTO FILLS the passwords + login and even manage all the passwords,accounts,etc.. And its fun to use too, you can install extensions to it..

and it can even manage the bank sites,etc.

Program:
stickypassword.com/
Now, its a trail or something but I think if you google it you can get an free offer on it (if you get the offer free then make sure you scan for reviews,etc and make sure your getting one of the newest versions... such as 7.0.5 .... .


google: Sticky Password 7.0.5.31 .. or download it from the official site..

another app;
agilebits.com/onepassword

That'll do!

It would take a desktop PC about 9 quindecillion years to crack your password

Timmehhh

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

But what happens if you have a brainstorm and forget the password to get into wherever that .doc file is stored :eek:

Pen n paper is yer only man!









(until it's found, or falls into the fire, obviously)

look up Sticky Password or 1password .... they auto save your password, + AUTO login (fill) so you DON'T EVEN HAVE TOO TYPE YOUR username or password + you can view all your logins + more + browser extension + even more, google this "Sticky Password" , mac user "1password"

HeidiHeidi

Timmehhh wrote: »

look up Sticky Password or 1password .... they auto save your password, + AUTO login (fill) so you DON'T EVEN HAVE TOO TYPE YOUR username or password + you can view all your logins + more + browser extension + even more, google this "Sticky Password" , mac user "1password"

eh.... thanks, but no thanks!

It would take a desktop PC about 4 octillion sexagintillion years to crack your password

It gets a bit silly when you stick in a lot of random stuff.