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Benedict Arnold

How do you manage your Internet passwords?

Do you use complex passwords? Do you have a means of remembering them should your computer crash?

Posted - February 21, 2017
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  • I have a special note book I write them in but I usually memorize them anyway. Most of them I also have stored in Dropbox, just in case.
      February 21, 2017 2:25 PM MST
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  • I keep records of a few of mine but the language is so cryptic that I doubt if anybody could break it. (But One Drive rather than Dropbox.) :)
      February 21, 2017 2:28 PM MST
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  • I only have a couple but do add or subtract endings.  Some times I over do on a site and just do over.
      February 21, 2017 2:41 PM MST
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  • The changed endings is a good trick. Makes it easy to remember.
      February 21, 2017 3:37 PM MST
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  • I write all of mine down in an address book and keep the book in my safe.
      February 21, 2017 2:43 PM MST
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  • Then would could come remembering the combination which is another safe. :)
      February 21, 2017 2:45 PM MST
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  • The safe takes a key and my thumb print to open. I just hope I never cut my thumb off.
      February 21, 2017 2:50 PM MST
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  • Insure that with Lloyds Of London.
      February 21, 2017 2:55 PM MST
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  • Good idea.
      February 21, 2017 3:09 PM MST
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  • The term digitus extractus must have a special meaning for you, Flo. :)
      February 22, 2017 1:29 PM MST
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  • I change most of mine every three months or so. Those small notebooks get full after a while! 
      February 21, 2017 2:47 PM MST
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  • Funny you should say that. I just rewrote all of mine in a bigger book. I use an address book so I can keep them in alphabetical order.
      February 21, 2017 2:51 PM MST
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  • As do I ! LOL
      February 21, 2017 2:52 PM MST
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  • It helps my old brain remember.
      February 21, 2017 3:08 PM MST
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  • I don't got no safe. :(
      February 21, 2017 3:37 PM MST
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  • You need a good hiding place for you passwords then Didge. Just make sure you can remember where that hiding place is.
      February 21, 2017 3:45 PM MST
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    I have the old programs we had to buy for the computer, and each box has a registration number on the end. I use them in the order they are on the shelf and use 7 or 8 digits of the registration numbers.
      February 21, 2017 5:04 PM MST
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  • Change them constantly.
      February 21, 2017 5:06 PM MST
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  • Don't you get mixed up and forget which are the current ones?
      February 21, 2017 10:36 PM MST
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  • Nope, delete the old ones from browser and throw the old list in the shredder.
      March 3, 2017 2:47 PM MST
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  • One simple but effective technique is think of a favourite song or movie, book etc... Use an anagram of title .. eh gone with the wind becomes gwtw ... Add some numbers that are meaningful .... The longer the password the harder to crack
      February 21, 2017 5:17 PM MST
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  • There is another way of course .. set your password to be "incorrect" ... Then when you need to enter it just type in gibberish... The system will then tell you what your password is :)
      February 21, 2017 5:37 PM MST
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  • You're not pulling old Didge's leg are you, Ozgirl?
      February 21, 2017 5:47 PM MST
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  • Didge... Would I do that?... Here I am giving you a perfectly good hint on how to remember your password and you cast aspersions upon me
      February 21, 2017 5:49 PM MST
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