pimmo2000

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http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/m...-safety-ov.htm

It’s easy enough to create and remember one or two log-in passwords. But these days you need to remember a growing list of user names, PINs, passwords, and other security codes for your computer, Internet bank account, cell-phone voice mail, ATMs, favorite shopping Web sites, and even for this Web site.

Complicating matters, experts on computer security recommend that you come up with complex codes for everything you need to access. That frustrates hackers but also makes it nearly impossible for you to keep track of the alphabetic, numeric, and symbolic jumble.

Even if you do come up with passwords that are easy to remember but tough to crack, new security measures may consign your creations to the digital dustbin every 60 or 90 days. And since we’ve been warned to never, ever write down this gobbledygook, the only safe option seems to be committing it to memory.

stevem2k

passwordsafe

mike1210

I use KeePass which seems tidy KeePass Password Safe

Iain Young

Just use ther same password of "1234" for everything. That makes it nice and easy to remember

Personally, I just remember them. Most websites have password reminders etc if I forget...

bob269

Eggs...Basket...

davegtt

I have everything in my head and it works for me, not forgot anything yet. Lost my bank card last week, I was in an emergency for cash so withdrew some on a credit card which Ive not used in over a year, bingo, took me all of 10 seconds to think and confirm my pin number

mike1210

A fair point, I can usually remember my passwords but I've forgoten some over the years hence resorting to kee Pass, I backup the folder every week and like to think it would be very tricky to compromise

kbsub

I have 3 different passwords I have been using since the late nineties , So if I forget one I know its one of the other 2

ash002004

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I have about siz different ones, with usernames that are the same and some slightly different, all in my head, lol. But on my vista pc it has password manager so its much easier, for example i have four email accounts with hotmail and with password manager i can save the details of all four and name them with a nickname should i ever forget, and it all logs it in for me, plus lists all four accounts on the main page and i just basically click one and it logs in.

plus if i need to run a popup or an application or install something, before it proceeds it will stop and ask me wether ive authorised it (incase someones hacking into it and normally i wouldnt know about it) so i can then continue. Dont know if this is for all vista users or just my pc i dunno!

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

Its UAC ... gets very annoying

ash002004

iTrader: (1)

ahh...yes sometimes very annoying but has saved my bacon a few times when my minds gone blank

Dazza's-STi

Easy, I simply have a word doc with everything in it, and just use Cryptext to encrypt the file, 160bit encryption so if you happen to have access to Deep Blue and several thousand years spare, then ya mite get the file open... I think thumb screws would be easier... but at least its very safe... also use it for files on my laptop i.e. MOD\Government network diagrams that are classified.

you can download cryptext freely