On Mon, Sep 26, 2016, at 09:44 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 2:54 PM, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > How many online accounts do you have that require a password? > > > > If you create a strong password for each of them, how do you keep track > > of them & remember what they are?
> I have a book with each site and password Its a big book I use an encrypted text file - actually two encrypted text files. The first lists usernames and/or email addresses and has references to line numbers in the second where the passwords are listed. This way I only need to remember the two (different) passwords that decrypt the text files. In practice, I can usually remember important passwords so I rarely need to resort to the text files. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > Dave > > > > On 9/25/2016 11:26 AM, Jostein Øksne wrote: > >> > >> So... Two years without changing passwords? Hmmm... ;-) > >> > >> Den 25. september 2016 15.33.48 CEST, skrev Mark Roberts > >> <postmas...@robertstech.com>: > >>> > >>> John wrote: > >>> > >>>> Saw the news story a few minutes ago. > >>>> > >>>> Apparently it happened in 2014, "state sponsored hackers", but Yahoo > >>>> didn't find it until August this year. I can't tell if they got any of > >>>> my information or not, but I went ahead and changed my password. The > >>>> only thing I used it for was a backup of PDML in case Roadrunner went > >>>> down again. And now that I'm using Earthlink for email, I probably > >>> > >>> don't > >>>> > >>>> need it for that. > >>>> > >>>> Anyway, I went ahead and changed my password. > >>> > >>> > >>> I'm a little late on this but it's probably worth mentioning: Yahoo IS > >>> Flickr! If you have a Flickr account you should change its password > >>> immediately. > >>> > >> > > > > -- > > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - mmm... Fastmail... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
