On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> One problem is you get so many online accounts with every one of them > requiring a password, how do you manage the proliferation? For years, I've used password management software. I currently have a couple of hundred passwords in my database; as you say, that's far too many to remember, especially if they're all unique, random, and complex. I currently use Keepass 2. Obviously, it's important not to lose the database, so it's on my USB flash drive, and is also synchronized with Dropbox to multiple computers and "the cloud." http://keypass.info/ The passwords that I use most often, I memorize through habit and repetition. In several recent hacker attacks, the hackers publicly posted password lists from the sites they cracked. Those password lists were then available for anyone in the world to try logging into Gmail, bank accounts, PayPal, etc. with the same credentials. I therefore consider it essential to use different passwords on different sites (and not by modifying the same basic password in an obvious way... e.g. MyPassw0rdFacebook -> MyPassw0rdPayPal). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
