January 29, 2011
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Password Strategy
A friend at work was complaining recently that he had so many passwords for all his different accounts that it was becoming difficult to keep the passwords straight and remember them.
I mentioned that I have a password strategy that I have used for years.
1. I have a password that I can give out to anyone so anyone can check into the account.
2. I have a password that is for my friends so I give this as a password whenever I might need to share it with a friend or coworker.
3. I have a password that is for close friends so I am safe it I need to share it with close friends or family.
4. I have a password that I use for any account shared with my wife.
5. I have a password that is the mother of all passwords and only I know it. It is a complicated password mixed with numbers and letters.
Do you have a password strategy?
Comments (54)
Almost all of my passwords are the same.
Yup, KeePass. I know the password to it, it knows the password to everything else.
Yeah, like I’m going to comment a popular blog with my password strategy.
Oh, I just keep my sole password for everything, which is my grandpa’s middle name, under my keyboard. Clever, huh? No one will ever think to look there.
I used to have a password strategy, but now I just use the same passy for all my accounts. Dan check out my blog. I just posted a new blog. Peace out my friend.
I try to keep the same theme in my passwords so I know if I forget, I just juggle the same things about and will be sucessful eventually. Silly but effective .As for telling anyone my passwords, not a good idea! I would have too many pranks on my accounts, too many jokers around me!
Yes, I do. It’s so simple I live in daily expectation of being hacked.
dang that’s even too complicated! well for me. I have a main password that i use on all accounts and a different password that the family knows to be able to sign on and get online. i don’t give anyone my psw if i do which i have only done a few times to family then i have to change it. I have the same strategy which is use the same one so when i did have to change that one i changed all of my accounts but still with the same new psw.
nope.
I would never tell anyone my passwords! If I need to I change it both before and after. My password strategy is to have a few main passwords and then use them in different ways with different numbers etc.
Even though i have LOADS of accounts and the number is currently growing, my passwords strategy is to have a unique one for each, what i do is use a word or group of words and numbers that are relevent to the subject of the site but also personal to me. So not only are they very secure but also the site or it’s graphics trigger the same connection in my mind that helped me come up with the password in the first place so they are usualy easy to remember.
Hah, like I would post my strategy online.
But once I had an easy password and my “friend” hacked into a forum as me and started sending people messages that she wanted to meet up with them. I got banned from that forum. It’s a good thing I didn’t really care about it.
@SeeBeeWrite - haha
Mine is a little simpler but works on a similar principal. 1. One I am likely to share with co-workers or friends; 2. One i share with family and maybe a bff, 3 One I share with nobody else.
None of my passwords are the same, but I have a system worked out so that I can’t really forget any of them. I also have a password for accounts I don’t care about so I can freely tell people or not care if it gets keylogged or whatever.
Lol
i have about four passwords i rotate
No, I just use two passwords for different accounts; for different things.
For relatively unimportant sites, I use the same password over and over. For more important things, I have a file on my computer where I keep them all in case I forget, though it’s usually a variation on one of a few different words. I typically remember everything though, only sites I don’t visit that often I have to check my list.
HAHA No. Sadly. I wish I did but I can’t ever remember my password if one is different. So alas, I am with the same password for everything.
I have about 4 different passwords that I rotate through. The hubby knows all of them and actually uses the same passwords. They are all a random series of numbers and letters.. it would be pretty impossible for someone to figure out.
My passwords are so random they’re funny.
I use the square root of 55 to about 18 decimal places. Well, not really, but do something equally complicated. And I memorize all of my passwords.
All mine are the same word. If they want something fancy with numbers I add a 1. And I have a chart with all my account log-in names, numbers, passwords, etc. It’s in the front cover of my old fashioned address book. The address book it next to the computer. I’m devious that way.
I use the word “password” as my password. The only exception is when the password requires a number, then I use “password1″.
Yeah I have a whole series of them too and use different ones. I have a weird memory for numbers and letters, so I don’t forget them.
Alrighty then…. Your strategy was way beyond my comprehension.
I keep mine simple for me, with slight variations for my different accounts. Yet I hope it’s not so easy for some computer guru to figure it out… But I’m sure most passwords can be figured out by someone with the correct knowledge to do so….
I have three passwords that i rotate.
I use the same word for everything
smart, eh?
@OhItWontBeForever - same
I have a password that is simple and is the first one I will try to use when creating a new account.
I have a password that uses numbers, and letters (upper and lower case).
If that’s not good enough, I have a password that uses numbers, letters (upper and lower case), and a symbol.
If none of those three passwords work, I curse the site and refuse to make up a new password. Okay, so I might have exaggerated a little bit, but there’s no way I’m going to remember that obnoxious password.
If I have to share my password for some weird reason, I’ll sometimes go in and change it temporarily. Then when password-sharing season is over, I change it back.
#5
All of my passwords are the same. It’s a sentence, actually. And I never give it to anyone. xP
I do. But you’d pretty much have to know everywhere I’ve ever lived to figure it out.
Something like that, yes. I do.
I use llamalima as all my passwords.
The passwords I like the best are ones that I didnt come up with – they were assigned. I am terrible at coming up with passwords!! Therefore, I just adopt assigned ones as ones I use for other things!
I always use past pet names or street names i like for passwors along with some numbers. a easy system but works for me.
I have a ‘universal’ password, which has variations of it depending on what each site allows. I have a version with/without characters and with/without numbers, because some sites don’t allow characters and others don’t allow numbers or whatever.
the only password I’ve shared with anyone is my Facebook one, with a really close friend. but I just change it to something random when she needs it, and then change it back when she’s done
I use random words like “necrophilia” or “AnimalAbuse666.” As a relatively normal-looking person, no one would guess these mentally-disturbed passcodes coming from me.
@llamalima - I use llamalima as all my passwords.
You fucking liar. It didn’t work.
@Celestial_Teapot - =)
My strategies are similar.
I have a password for work, a password for my blogs, a password for emails and a password for important stuffs like my bank account.
i have one password with different variations of it.
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I use Roboform. The free version saves/inputs up to 10 different passwords for me. It fills out address forms and more, too.
Dunno. I have to click “forgot my password” everytime I log into Xanga, Skype and sometimes facebook. That’s my strategy. The only password I’m sure of is my email
What an intelligent question to answer.
I have a plaintext document with the passwords of various places listed in it, minus an 8 character series of rather random letters and numbers which I manually append to the end when entering. Allows for different passwords for different places, and even if someone gets the list, unless they have the series of characters, they’re out of luck.
I have passwords that share a common theme but not common letters. Nobody ever has my passwords, ever. I have left orders that my laptop is to be drowned in the bathtub should something happen to me. Case closed.
I keep all my passwords on my palm pilot. I have one code that I translate into all my passwords. It’s all a variation of that one code. Figure out my code and you figure out all my passwords.
@Rob_of_the_Sky -Hey no way, that’s what I use too!!!
nope!
I just have a mother password which I change every month.
It’s composed of numbers, letters in different cases, and at least two punctuation marks. 