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Post by mollycoddle on Apr 11, 2023 20:54:48 GMT
My IT DH's head would explode if I shared some of the ways you all save your passwords! BUT, I would probably be right there with you all if I didn't have him. We have Keeper which saves all our passwords and will create passwords when signing up for a new account. All you have to do is remember one master password. I said, "Well, that will be great until that gets hacked!", which he didn't not think was funny. DH has a great sense of humor but passwords on sticky notes and me asking for help with a printer changes his DNA. Lol! Don’t tell him that I save mine in Notes on my phone. ☺️ But they are on my phone, not in the cloud. So there’s that.
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Post by unknown pea on Apr 11, 2023 21:06:19 GMT
I make up a sentence about something that I experienced or remember, and use the first letters from each word. Does everyone else do this? This is exactly what I do. I add a letter that corresponds to the website, so I would add a c to the beginning for Costco.
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peaname
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Post by peaname on Apr 11, 2023 21:41:52 GMT
No same letters as your username takes the cake! t@kesTHEc@ke!!
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Post by roundtwo on Apr 11, 2023 22:12:08 GMT
I read this thread and then popped over to Instagram - apparently it is a theme today.
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Post by busy on Apr 11, 2023 22:29:32 GMT
My IT DH's head would explode if I shared some of the ways you all save your passwords! BUT, I would probably be right there with you all if I didn't have him. We have Keeper which saves all our passwords and will create passwords when signing up for a new account. All you have to do is remember one master password. I said, "Well, that will be great until that gets hacked!", which he didn't not think was funny. DH has a great sense of humor but passwords on sticky notes and me asking for help with a printer changes his DNA. It is giving me physical pain
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Post by HelenaJole on Apr 11, 2023 22:44:28 GMT
One of my passwords is a phrase from a Korean song, typed in Korean but with the keyboard set to English (so it just comes out as gibberish). Which means I can type it fine while I'm on my computer, but if I ever have to log into the site from anywhere else, I'm going to have to google a Korean keyboard and figure out what the keys are.
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Post by don on Apr 11, 2023 22:59:51 GMT
I just hope my computer remembers my login stuff, because I don't.
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Post by prettyprettypaper on Apr 11, 2023 23:39:26 GMT
I get why they implement them, but password rules drive me bonkers!! For the "no dictionary words" rules, I'd just use a Hawaiian word. I already do now for many of my passwords.
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Post by boys5times on Apr 12, 2023 3:00:10 GMT
Dashlane app is the best! Free if you just have 1 device, or like $34 a year synced to ALL your devices; phones, ipads, laptops, kindles, etc. You can enter your own password, or have it generate one. LOVE IT!
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kiavonne
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Post by kiavonne on Apr 12, 2023 6:36:31 GMT
Lately, I've been letting my computer browser set my passwords for various sites, it scrambles random letters and numbers together, and I never write them down, I just populate.
However, if I really want to remember the pw - or the site requires special characters, I select a three to five word phrase, select just two letters from each word and capitalize one of the letters and pair them up with a couple of numbers that my fingers find, and then add a symbol at the end of each set of letters and numbers. I just remember the phrase in my head and the rest seem to come out quickly after the first two or three times I've used the pw. I do, however, write down hints to myself that don't include the actual pw so I can remember if the site isn't one I visit often.
I do think passwords have really gotten out of hand, and I wish sites would be more diligent in their own security measures. Most of my issues have come from site hacks that have spilled out personal data, and not from passwords.
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