Passwords! GRRR

RumRat

Lastpass.............HERE

googler

Just make the passwords something you'll remember.

Initials of favourite song title
Combinations of family members' years of birth, with backward names included
etc
etc

agrinnall

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Firefox always offers to remember passwords.

Certainly not always. There are plenty of sites that it doesn't happen for, and I presume the facility can be disabled by the website.

SailorSam

I use Lastpass, then i can notes about all the sites, and less important sites i'll let Mozilla remember them.

Roland_Sausage

I used to use Lastpass until they had some kind of security breach. Now I use 1Password. It's a similar idea but the passwords aren't uploaded to their servers.

It's also handy for storing and filling in credit card details.

victor2

googler wrote: »

Just make the passwords something you'll remember.

Initials of favourite song title
Combinations of family members' years of birth, with backward names included
etc
etc

Use something like the above to create a core password, then modify it (possibly by adding a few site specific initials to the end) to give you a unique password for every system you login to, but one that you can figure out with an educated guess.
Given that compromised passwords are in all likelihood going to be tried against multiple popular sites by a robot, said robot won't have the intelligence or desire to examine the password and realise what system may have been used.

Norman_Castle

agrinnall wrote: »

Certainly not always. There are plenty of sites that it doesn't happen for, and I presume the facility can be disabled by the website.

It always offers to remember the ones it can remember but obviously not the others

SailorSam

When i first got my computer i knew nothing about passwords. The guy who was helping me set it up asked what i wanted it to be as we signed into virginmedia, 'cos i didn't know he put ABC123 and it's only recently i've changed it. It's often difficult picking words t haven't already been chosen. What i do now is, i may be reading a book; watching Tv; listening to music, or even overhear someone talking on the bus, and if there's a word or short phrase that i like the sound of, maybe a word i'v never heard, i'll check out it's meaning and note it down for future use.

iamlucky18

mSecure. Of all the ones I have used, this is the best one. There is also an Android version so any changes you make on either the desktop or phone can be synced.

Passwords can be auto generated and you can tell it to include special characters etc.

You can also do secure backups of the database.

You can also one click copy usernames and passwords. Very handy.

What more do you need?

Also - never ever ever include combinations of dates of birth and initials etc. That's a terrible idea. You'll be surprised at the complexity of password hacking software and that hackers have access to your personal information via Facebook etc.

Please don't reply by saying that you haven't had a problem so far - it's only only because you've been lucky so far.

Robisere

Firefox keeps mine, but I also keep them in an address book. I long ago used up all the pages, so I created my own A5 pages in Open Office, stored on an encrypted USB stick. Then I typed in all my alphabetised passwords onto the pages. The book is small and kept very securely well away from the computer, until I actually need it. That way, if I lose or stop using Ffox, I don't lose my passwords and can start again.

I wish I had my youngest grandson's eidetic memory: he is dyslexic and has reading problems and the words he tries to write get mixed in his head, but he remembers everything he sees, hears and reads. He types very quickly, after discovering that he can use a keyboard to get his words down correctly, he now remembers every password all the time, but has to type them as he cannot write them. I love to see his fingers flashing over the keys, finding a way around this crippling problem has been the educational saving of him.