On 10/02/2016 11:45, whisky-dave wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 08:24:14 UTC, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 10/02/16 01:40, F Murtz wrote:

I end up with extremely rude vulgar passwords in the end because of
this practice.
It is self defeating because everyone is writing their passwords down
and carrying them with them because it id becoming impossible to
remember them.


The point about a password manager is this:

If any one of your passwords that you use online is nicked, it doesn't
compromise any others.

unless it's the one used for the password manager.


Since you never use the master password except to unlock the password
manager, it is unlikely that anyone will get to know it.,

unless they nick the device you use for whatever.


Since the encrypted passwords are held on only one machine, its unlikely
they will be hacked and cracked either

what happens if that machine dies, or gets stolen.


This is the only way to ameliorate this habit of having totally
different password requirements on sites.

My system works I have a 'crib' sheet written in a particualar app
which has all my passwords stored crypitaclly.
so if yuo found out that

Ferritors monthly, users name dave, password "61"

how would you get to my Ferritors monthly subscription ?
what would you type for the password ?

but when I've forgotten my password I go to that document type in my master password and I see the number 61, and then I remmeber.....
as a kid at school, me and my mates had codes.
And rather than say to my mates corrrr.. look at the arse on that...
I'd wink and say sixty-one and nod in a direction which actually means
look at her/that "sexybum".

sort of cockney slang.

of course you might not know that any passwrod I use for finacail stuff such as buying/selling I always spell in reverse or I always add 01 to the beginning or at the end or I use a "-" every 3 characters or it always ends in uppercase.

If you have a reasonable memory and can set yourself rules then having lots of passwords isn't as big a problem as it might seem.


Paranoia all of it. The whole world can have access to anything of mine
apart from bank stuff, .....and the pin-ups.