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I knew that the bank password was weak, the equivalent of a screen door with a hook-and-eye "lock." Moreover, it was the last remaining "important" account that used a variation on that old password. I count myself fortunate to have got off with a brief scare.
I've heard it said by IT boffins that any password you can remember is already not secure. Digression follows:
In my childhood and teens I had this odd Aspergerish compulsion to maintain a personal calendar: I used to amuse/irritate my friends with this (Them: "Remember when we all went out to Zuma Beach after that [redacted] all-nighter so we could watch the sun rise? And then realized we were on the wrong side of the country for that?" Me: "Oh, yes, that would have been April 19, 1969"). This faded out in my very early twenties, and from about 1973 forward I'm no likelier to pinpoint the date of a trivial event than the next guy.
That said, I can remember the exact dates of my first dozen or fifteen bonks. Hold that thought. I now record my passwords in a Field Notes notebook (two, actually), a medium impervious to most known electronic monitoring. These useful booklets also include serial numbers, usernames, email identities linked to product registrations, et cetera.
I have a formula for processing bonk partner name/dates into passwords, so for important accounts, these passwords are recorded merely with a two-digit numerical code (01, 02, 03...) representing the erotic sequence, run through the formula, and entered. So, for example, if I wish to look in on my account in the Caymans (as if!) I consult my little notebook, note that it's "05" (ah, Drusilla!), run the particulars through my blender, and there we are.
However, I know a few people who swear by so-called "password managers." Anyone here use these?
cautiously,
I've heard it said by IT boffins that any password you can remember is already not secure. Digression follows:
In my childhood and teens I had this odd Aspergerish compulsion to maintain a personal calendar: I used to amuse/irritate my friends with this (Them: "Remember when we all went out to Zuma Beach after that [redacted] all-nighter so we could watch the sun rise? And then realized we were on the wrong side of the country for that?" Me: "Oh, yes, that would have been April 19, 1969"). This faded out in my very early twenties, and from about 1973 forward I'm no likelier to pinpoint the date of a trivial event than the next guy.
That said, I can remember the exact dates of my first dozen or fifteen bonks. Hold that thought. I now record my passwords in a Field Notes notebook (two, actually), a medium impervious to most known electronic monitoring. These useful booklets also include serial numbers, usernames, email identities linked to product registrations, et cetera.
I have a formula for processing bonk partner name/dates into passwords, so for important accounts, these passwords are recorded merely with a two-digit numerical code (01, 02, 03...) representing the erotic sequence, run through the formula, and entered. So, for example, if I wish to look in on my account in the Caymans (as if!) I consult my little notebook, note that it's "05" (ah, Drusilla!), run the particulars through my blender, and there we are.
However, I know a few people who swear by so-called "password managers." Anyone here use these?
cautiously,
