Moans and Pet Hates Part 7

Originally Posted by weenie

Forgetting my password, wishing now I had the same password for all, but my eldest son Steven say's that's a very bad idea to have the same password for everything, that maybe so but at least it would make life easier

as long as it is a secure password and not simple. There was an alleged leak of user details from steam I think it was I downloaded the details to make sure mine was not there ( it was not) but some of the combinations would be guessed anyway

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by weenie

Forgetting my password, wishing now I had the same password for all, but my eldest son Steven say's that's a very bad idea to have the same password for everything, that maybe so but at least it would make life easier

I use a free password manager called 'lastpass' then i only need to remember 1 password, although any banking passwords i don't store in that.

[nashville]

How are you feeling now Mark? Remember me never to go on holiday when the World Cup is on, Football in the pubs every night, it is driving me mad

[MalteseFalcon]

I'm feeling great now thanks. Last couple of weeks were awful, never want it again. Eye has been fine since Friday, so maybe the drops helped cure whatever it was.

[thenry]

I hate where I am. I wish I could get out.

[nashville]

Where are you Thenry, if you don,t mind me asking

[thenry]

'Home'. A decade of torture around people who don't care.

[nashville]

Sorry to hear that, thenry . Come back chat any time , Take Care

[weenie]

Originally Posted by thenry

'Home'. A decade of torture around people who don't care.

Really sorry to hear that thenry.

[Qtx]

Originally Posted by weenie

Forgetting my password, wishing now I had the same password for all, but my eldest son Steven say's that's a very bad idea to have the same password for everything, that maybe so but at least it would make life easier

Make a system so that each site can have a different password but you will still remember it. For example, a date (not your birthday!) + something specific to each site. So if you used 1942 as your date, your password for Cableforum could be Cableforum1942. On gmail it would then be gmail1942. It's better if you don't use a site name but something unique to the site, so for Cableforum you could use Virgin1942 and snailmail1942 for gmail.

Make it a little bit more complicated than that but in a way you will still remember. Maybe separate the two words with a special character such as an ! or %, so it becomes virgin%1942.

Make one or two letters uppercase or all uppercase but one or two to add a bit more strength too.

Once you remember the password for one site, you can always work out the other site passwords based on the system even if you have not logged in for years. There are lots of ways of making a system, above is just an example

LastPass and those type of things are pretty good if you only ever a computer to login with though.

Edit: Forgot to mention, use a unique password for your main email address, nothing to do with the system. Think of that email address as the key to all your other accounts. If that password gets compromised then it can be used to reset the passwords on all your other sites that you signed up with. Also in the unlikely event two of your other accounts passwords were found out, they can't be used to work out your email pass based on seeing your system!

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Originally Posted by thenry

'Home'. A decade of torture around people who don't care.

But England are playing Thursday!

[weenie]

Will do that Qtx, that's a really good thanks.

[Hom3r]

Originally Posted by weenie

Forgetting my password, wishing now I had the same password for all, but my eldest son Steven say's that's a very bad idea to have the same password for everything, that maybe so but at least it would make life easier

I use a smartphone app called KeePassDroid, you can put all the password you use into different folders (emails, websites, bank etc)

[dilli-theclaw]

Sitting in hospital, bored..... Nothing new there then

[denphone]

Originally Posted by dilli-theclaw

Sitting in hospital, bored..... Nothing new there then

Hopefully dilli you won't be there for long.

[weenie]

Originally Posted by dilli-theclaw

Sitting in hospital, bored..... Nothing new there then

Hopefully you will be home soon dilli.