But you're the matrix, so you can remember all those password.feyd wrote:They're all in my head.
How do you remember passwords
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Man, you guys need to get out more if you remember birthdays, phone numbers, etc...
Your computer geeks and your relying on biological matter to track things a computer excels at? Hell I wouldn't even suggest a savant remembers phones numbers - 411 anyone?. Anything I can get my computer to remember, it does for me nicely. I save my brain power and memory for things which require human reasoning and/or practical thought. Although I have a tendancy to remember the weirdest numbers like PI or the number of feet in a statuate mile and C to F conversions. I think it is an indirect result of my dad pressuring me to be a pilot from the moment I left the womb...I was meant to grace the skies with my presence...yup...I still regret not being a flyboy
Anyways....
1) Use a program like KeePass - already noted.
2) Use "shocking nonsense" defined by Grady Ward: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/kr ... e-faq.html
Pick a readily available username, it's why I chose Hockey, after years of trying to remember what my username was, I finally discovered "Hockey" was almost always available.
Personally number #2 works great for me as I always have alot of turret type feelings and emotions ready to be unloaded onto the world, but that I hold back in fear. Instead, like an artist expresses themselve through music, as a programmer I express my demons through nonsense passwords.
Cheers
Your computer geeks and your relying on biological matter to track things a computer excels at? Hell I wouldn't even suggest a savant remembers phones numbers - 411 anyone?. Anything I can get my computer to remember, it does for me nicely. I save my brain power and memory for things which require human reasoning and/or practical thought. Although I have a tendancy to remember the weirdest numbers like PI or the number of feet in a statuate mile and C to F conversions. I think it is an indirect result of my dad pressuring me to be a pilot from the moment I left the womb...I was meant to grace the skies with my presence...yup...I still regret not being a flyboy
Anyways....
1) Use a program like KeePass - already noted.
2) Use "shocking nonsense" defined by Grady Ward: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/kr ... e-faq.html
Pick a readily available username, it's why I chose Hockey, after years of trying to remember what my username was, I finally discovered "Hockey" was almost always available.
Personally number #2 works great for me as I always have alot of turret type feelings and emotions ready to be unloaded onto the world, but that I hold back in fear. Instead, like an artist expresses themselve through music, as a programmer I express my demons through nonsense passwords.
Cheers
OK, I'll have a second look at those programs. Although I must say I'm wary of trusting all my passwords to it. I mean, how strong is such a program if a malicious person would gain access to my computer? Throw enough processor power and a bit of time at something and anything can be broken.
Thanks for the link hockey. Is that document really from '93? That's pretty cool
Thanks for the link hockey. Is that document really from '93? That's pretty cool
The document Hockey linked to gave a good idea. make up a real weird sentence and use that. Maybe what I'll do is make up a real weird but easy to remember sentence and take the first letters and numbers of each word, and use that as a password.
It's probably a lot easier to remember say 3-5 of those sentences then just the password strings. "Hockey Is 2 times more Funny 4 all red cars" would give "hi2tmf4arc", which seems like pretty good password.
And then for the (many) logins which are not important/sensitive I'll use a simple combi "mylogin/funnypass" or bugmenot.com
It's probably a lot easier to remember say 3-5 of those sentences then just the password strings. "Hockey Is 2 times more Funny 4 all red cars" would give "hi2tmf4arc", which seems like pretty good password.
And then for the (many) logins which are not important/sensitive I'll use a simple combi "mylogin/funnypass" or bugmenot.com
"Hockey Is 2 times more Funny 4 all red cars" is a much better passwords than hi2tmf4arc (unless of course the service doesn't allow you so large a password)matthijs wrote: "Hockey Is 2 times more Funny 4 all red cars" would give "hi2tmf4arc", which seems like pretty good password.
Anyway, it's been (like all good things) suggested before: http://www.searchlores.org/unabpwd.htm#motips (the Georg Heym poem)
Btw, before there was bugmenot there were the cypherpunks "who wrote code" (i.e. common passwords for free services were cypherpunks/cypherpunks, cypherpunks/writecode etc.).matthijs wrote:And then for the (many) logins which are not important/sensitive I'll use a simple combi "mylogin/funnypass" or bugmenot.com
Anyway Bruce Schneier does it best
Edit: Also http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/27
I guess I'm fortunate or I don't get out much (thanks, Hockey!). I remember my DL, SSN, phone numbers of every place I've lived or worked, passwords, all my family's numbers, etc ad nauseum. On the flipside, I am terrible with remembering people's names. Good with faces, bad with matching names to them.
At any rate, I have a simple trick to remembering passwords; I use a string of what would appear to be random numbers and upper/lower letters, BUT is actually a sequence that means something to me related to that site. I use a mnenomic trick to create a pass and it's much easier to remember with relation to the specific site.
At any rate, I have a simple trick to remembering passwords; I use a string of what would appear to be random numbers and upper/lower letters, BUT is actually a sequence that means something to me related to that site. I use a mnenomic trick to create a pass and it's much easier to remember with relation to the specific site.