I completely agree with Bruce here. Complex passwords and regular expirations forces the user to record the password elsewhere which is much greatest risk. Quite a few websites have sprung up who provide password saving functionality, but I wouldnt be able to sleep peacefully knowing that all my sensetive passwords are stored away on a website, that may be open to exploitation.
I generally use a set of passwords across all my accounts. They comprise of 3 levels of strength for different kinds of sites. The strongest ones are for my email/bank accounts(which are different variations for each). The second level are for most social networking sites that are trustworthy. And a third password for sites that I dont think are very dependable. The reason for this is that in a situation a weak site compromises with your password it wouldnt affect my important online accounts. This way its also easier to remember my passwords and not have to run to my Keepass time and again everytime i need to login. Another thing I would like to share I would like to share here is how I use my browser. Since its almost an OS for me now, I use the portable versions of Firefox and Opera wherever I go. At home or Office I am able to save my bookmarks and passwords on my encrypted USB without leaving behind any trace or exploitable data. vicki pandit | User Interface [email protected] | www.merlinvicki.in http://twitter.com/merlinvicki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=41287 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
