How many months of our lives do we spend...

[BigonaBianchi]

...trying to log into sites we have forgotton the dam password to?!!!!!!!!!!!! ....endlessly re entering e mail address, usernames etc...I could scream!!!! Life is to short.

 

[MossCommuter]

Click here if you have forgotten your password

(I feel your pain)

 

[Pat "5mph"]

use the same passwords? keep a wee book/computer file with all the passwords? Re-register and remember your password this time?

 

[MossCommuter]

Passwords is a funny subject (funny "interesting", not funny "haha").

we have been educated to use obscure mixtures of upper and lower case and punctuation and special characters, so my password to Cycle Chat might be "My.pAssW0rd.t0.cycl3.ch4t" (but it's not)... But guess what, that's not much harder for a robot (a program) to guess than if my password were my birth-date or simply "MossCommuter".

The only defence is to make it long (to make the robot work longer to "guess" it) but if you make it long, you're going to be more likely to forget it so make a sentence or "passphrase" out of it... so "My.Password.To.Cyclechat" would be quite safe after all but no safer than "Hy.8uJJmoij£.To.Ikun&yVht"

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Ach, who's gonna want to crack your Cchat password? The only important ones are really for the online banking sites imo.

Edit: you may as well use the same password for forums and the likes.

 

[MossCommuter]

Ach, who's gonna want to crack your Cchat password? The only important ones are really for the online banking sites imo.

Edit: you may as well use the same password for forums and the likes.

That was not my point... my point was, we have been taught to choose randomised passwords but really they are no harder for a robot to guess. Make them loooong to make that harder. To stop people knowing them is easy; just don't tell

 

[Pat "5mph"]

That was not my point... my point was, we have been taught to choose randomised passwords but really they are no harder for a robot to guess. Make them loooong to make that harder. To stop people knowing them is easy; just don't tell

yeah, you might be right. Some sites insist also that you put numbers in your password as well as letters. Guess all this is no use to Boab anyhow

 

[slowmotion]

Buy a little notebook. Write down all your passwords in your own silly code, never the passwords themselves. Easy.

 

[Dan B]

Use a secure password manager such as lastpass.com (others exist) which will choose unique passwords for each site you visit, remember them, and fill them in next time you visit.

It also syncs your passwords across systems if you use more than one browser or more than one computer. The android app is rubbish though sadly

On the subject if choosing your own passwords, check out https://xkcd.com/936/

 

[Red Light]

Use Firefox as your web browser. It will remember your passwords for you and, with access controlled by a master password, you can also view them if necessary (which for example Opera's password remembering system doesn't allow). You can also sync Firefox across multiple devices so it also remembers them for my iPad and a second laptop when I set them up on just one of the devices (as well as the history, bookmarks and tabs)

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The worst is if you buy something and manage to somehow drag the password up from the depths but then cruel fate steps in with 'verified by visa' and all is lost as you haven't the mental strength for 2 passwords for 1 transaction....

Aaarrrrrrgggggghhhhh!!!!!

 

[RaRa]

I use lastpass - it's saved me from many a frantic moment where i'm on the last try to enter a password before i get locked out for ever!