Comments on: Life password overhaul

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:47:40 +0000

Heh, Ticketbastards.

I will allow that to distract me from following the sensible advice for now.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:58:50 +0000

I have a slowing evolving set of passwords.

I move them from site to site, staggering their use.

It works in my head anyway.

Having said that, one day I’ll fall off my bike and my entire life and existence will be lost behind a set of forgotten passwords and PINs.

By: John

John — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:11:31 +0000

Thanks folks.

That’s a good system Aileen.

By: Damien

Damien — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:56:24 +0000

Nice one John

By: Aileen

Aileen — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:26:40 +0000

Useful post that. Another tip I was given is have a password that is made up of two components, one part that you remember in your head and one that changes with each site and you write down so you can remember it eg amazon might be fru1tcake, and flickr might be fru1tfrog. You’d keep a list of cake, frog, but keep fru1t hidden secret in your head.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:41:34 +0000

passpack.com offers online password storage for ‘easier’ portability.

Another option is KeePass and Dropbox.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:32:21 +0000

“2bon2btit?” is a great password, I think I’ll use that in future.

Anymore great tips?

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:31:19 +0000

great post !

By: John

John — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:12:41 +0000

I always use made up words like Cropplejock and then disguise it, like Cr0pplej@ck (no that’s not one of my passwords, I just made it up!)

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:09:34 +0000

Top tip for generating passwords (which I was told by a real cryptographer)
Use an acronym

words and names are easy to guess, easy to hack
jumbles of random letters are hard to remember

so pick a line from a song, a book, a play, and turn it into an acronym. easy to remember, won’t be broken by a dictionary attack

eg “to be or not to be, that is the question”
becomes 2bon2btit?