passwords 10 April 2014 at 9:07AM in Over 50s MoneySaving 33 replies 4.9K views

SailorSam

scotsbob wrote: »

A smart move in my opinion. That way there is no paper trail and government depts. can't snatch money out of your bank account.

They were talking on Bbc Breakfast this morning that George Osbourne hopes to bring in tougher laws to fine and even send to jail those people who try to hide money abroad rather than pay tax.

Farway

SailorSam wrote: »

They were talking on Bbc Breakfast this morning that George Osbourne hopes to bring in tougher laws to fine and even send to jail those people who try to hide money abroad rather than pay tax.

Note the weasel word "hope"? Dream on George, too many vested interests, party donors and zillionares involved to even get close

pollypenny

I use various Welsh words. Not so many Welsh speaking hackers, I think.

a&akay

kittie wrote: »

I saw on the news today about changing passwords, so I set to. It is a horrible job, I have had to think of new and complicated passwords with upper and lower case and numbers. I am really pee`d off with it, changing mine and DHs savings accounts amongst lots of other accounts and having different passwords for different accounts :eek:

I have decided to close a couple of accounts when they mature and I am either spending the cash or keeping it in the house, which is perfectly safe where I live

I can`t keep up with this

Not related to passwords, but to 'memorable information'. Between us we've got 10s of these in multiple accounts. Out of the blue Santander on a 123 log in asked for verification along the lines of 'what's your favourite colour'. We always enter colourxxxx when these accounts are first set up. The xs can be whatever you can remember. In our case it's a simple 1 ie colour1. Works for pet ie pet1, name ie name1, school ie school1 or whatever the key word is. We have a few very old accounts where we actually entered a true response but these are rapidly dimishing, along with the grey cells:D

zygurat789

a&akay wrote: »

Not related to passwords, but to 'memorable information'. Between us we've got 10s of these in multiple accounts. Out of the blue Santander on a 123 log in asked for verification along the lines of 'what's your favourite colour'. We always enter colourxxxx when these accounts are first set up. The xs can be whatever you can remember. In our case it's a simple 1 ie colour1. Works for pet ie pet1, name ie name1, school ie school1 or whatever the key word is. We have a few very old accounts where we actually entered a true response but these are rapidly dimishing, along with the grey cells:D

All the little ways that we devise for passwords are only designed to help us remember them, all the computer does is compare a string of 1s and 0s from your input to the master data it holds.

Biggles

zygurat789 wrote: »

All the little ways that we devise for passwords are only designed to help us remember them

I think that was the point.....

frugalmacdugal

Hi,

pollypenny wrote: »

I use various Welsh words. Not so many Welsh speaking hackers, I think.

ydych yn credu hynny?

zygurat789

Biggles wrote: »

I think that was the point.....

But most of the posts seem to me to be trying to devise obtuse passwords rather than rememberable ones.

Eenymeeny

scotsbob wrote: »

Just get a programme which manages them all for you.

Keepass is a free one, there are many others both free and for a payment

http://keepass.info/

"I am either spending the cash or keeping it in the house"

A smart move in my opinion. That way there is no paper trail and government depts. can't snatch money out of your bank account.

I worry that these sites could be hacked too. Is this a possibility? I would think that they would be prime targets:eek:
I keep an address book especially for the purpose, although it's looking rather tatty now. (The constant crossings out make it even more difficult to decipher to strangers!)
I'm told that the likelihood of a burglar stealing your computer and a tatty old address book isn't very likely...

pollypenny

frugalmacdugal wrote: »

Hi,



ydych yn credu hynny?

Bendant, gyda drics!