Write your passwords down (2010)
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Write your passwords down (2010)
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Re: Write your passwords down (2010)
#2Don't use fancy combinations. Word phrases are even more random and much easier to remember. E.G. "touch-some-grass" is rander longer than any recommended minimum and hardly could be connected to any website.
Re: Write your passwords down (2010)
#3Don't use fancy combinations. Word phrases are even more random and much easier to remember. E.G. "touch-some-grass" is rander longer than any recommended minimum and hardly could be connected to any website.
Exactly, using phrases is so much nicer and better in every way.
It annoys me when sites demand a password should have a special character or upper case letter in it. Or even worse: a max length.
Re: Write your passwords down (2010)
#4Question for security experts: Is this really that much more secure than a local only password manager, like KeePass? It is fun, but the inconvenience of it feels like its not worth the benefits.
Re: Write your passwords down (2010)
#5What if the website doesn't allow the characters that you used in the table?
What if there are multiple websites with the same 2nd and 3rd characters?
Re: Write your passwords down (2010)
#6Or just copy my mother and write them all on a post-in note stuck to the side of your monitor!
Re: Write your passwords down (2010)
#7I find it surprising this article doesn't mention password managers, though some comments do. They were already in widespread use in 2010.
Re: Write your passwords down (2010)
#8What if the website doesn't allow the characters that you used in the table? What if there are multiple websites with the same 2nd and 3rd characters?
what if the password needs to be changed and previous ones can't be reused (You then must remember that)?
Re: Write your passwords down (2010)
#9Don't use fancy combinations. Word phrases are even more random and much easier to remember. E.G. "touch-some-grass" is rander longer than any recommended minimum and hardly could be connected to any website.
Exactly, using phrases is so much nicer and better in every way. It annoys me when sites demand a password should have a special character or upper case letter in it. Or even worse: a max length.
Max lengths are so sketchy because this makes it more likely the crazy guys are actually storing your password rather than the fixed size hash.
Re: Write your passwords down (2010)
#10Better write a script that takes a master-password and site-name, and produces a hash that you can use as a password.