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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 8:59 am
by aaronhall
Same as Kieran, basically 4 or 5 different passwords, all but one of which each being assigned to different, ultra-sensitive accounts (email, bank, etc.), the other password being the default for forums, hardcore porn.. you know, the normal everyday stuff.
Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 1:53 am
by alvinphp
all my passwords are different and i use a program that saves them. it does all this stuff to help prevent password theft.
Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 3:45 am
by Kieran Huggins
...but what if the program breaks? How do you deal with loss of access to all your accounts? What a pain. The added security just isn't worth it for me.
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 7:18 am
by Mordred
Kieran Huggins wrote:...but what if the program breaks? How do you deal with loss of access to all your accounts? What a pain. The added security just isn't worth it for me.
Ever heard of backup?

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 7:56 am
by sentback
I simply use the same password on every forum and site. It's not like anybody can steal money knowing it

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:22 am
by Jenk
I have a pool of common passwords, one that I use for sites I don't particularly care about such as my spam mail account (hotmail) and one-time register sites if I am looking for a driver or something, (incidentally I use the same hotmail account for those registrations.) on only the utmost important (to me) sites, I use unique passwords, which I just remember, and for things like fora I tend to use the same password.
For (network) domain passwords, I do what every self respecting geek does.. I use a strong password with a number on the end that I increment everytime I have to update it.
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 12:44 pm
by matthijs
Jenk wrote:I have a pool of common passwords, one that I use for sites I don't particularly care about such as my spam mail account (hotmail) and one-time register sites if I am looking for a driver or something, (incidentally I use the same hotmail account for those registrations.) on only the utmost important (to me) sites, I use unique passwords, which I just remember, and for things like fora I tend to use the same password.
For (network) domain passwords, I do what every self respecting geek does.. I use a strong password with a number on the end that I increment everytime I have to update it.
And those domain passwords. You remember them as well? Or do you write them down?
For me it would be impossible to remember them all. Not that I made/maintain that many websites, but 20-30 is enough to not be able to remember them all. And on top of that, most websites have a login for the server, one for the CMS, for the DB, maybe for another system. All those must be strong, unique. Meaning hard to remember.
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:15 am
by Kieran Huggins
Mordred wrote:Kieran Huggins wrote:...but what if the program breaks? How do you deal with loss of access to all your accounts? What a pain. The added security just isn't worth it for me.
Ever heard of backup?

I do backup daily
What if you switch OS? PITA!
Sync to laptop? PITA!
Access from elsewhere? PITA!
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:42 am
by Mordred
Well,
KeePass has ports for all the major OS-es, including Windows Mobile (Pocket PC), and it has export and import features. It can be carried on a USB stick (or PPC, as I do). As far as portability is concerned it is pretty well-suited.
(Hey, there may be minors here, it's "PIT
S")
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 3:12 am
by Kieran Huggins
Some fine points, you win this round....
I had a thought the other day about smurfs... if they're 3 apples high and live in mushrooms, those must be some big-smurfing mushrooms! Maybe it's an alternate universe where scale has no meaning, like where they set the new transformers movie. But I digress....
Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 3:33 am
by Jenk
matthijs wrote:Jenk wrote:I have a pool of common passwords, one that I use for sites I don't particularly care about such as my spam mail account (hotmail) and one-time register sites if I am looking for a driver or something, (incidentally I use the same hotmail account for those registrations.) on only the utmost important (to me) sites, I use unique passwords, which I just remember, and for things like fora I tend to use the same password.
For (network) domain passwords, I do what every self respecting geek does.. I use a strong password with a number on the end that I increment everytime I have to update it.
And those domain passwords. You remember them as well? Or do you write them down?
For me it would be impossible to remember them all. Not that I made/maintain that many websites, but 20-30 is enough to not be able to remember them all. And on top of that, most websites have a login for the server, one for the CMS, for the DB, maybe for another system. All those must be strong, unique. Meaning hard to remember.
I only have one domain password - I don't mean domain as in my password for jenk.co.uk, I mean network password at work which is synch'd with every system we use at work.