My number one spot for finding passwords on paper is in the safe in the vault in a double sealed envelope with the signature of the last person who had to open it across the seal.
-----Original Message----- From: Casey Allen Shobe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 3:28 AM To: Zeshan Ghory Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Passwords On Paper Post-it's seem to be the most popular... Bottoms of keyboards; front, sides, bottom, back of monitors; taped to desk undersides; in a desk drawer, on the bottom of desk speakers, telephones, lamps, etc.; I've even seen them taped to the bottoms of mice. If I have to write something down, it goes in my wallet. Not that that's a good idea, but when somebody says "you'll need this password a few times a day, and it changes once a month: r4fis9gf',.pf*$FD/1@$^490int8-^&7fircds34167", it becomes impossible to remember. Where I can think up reasonably complex passwords that I will remember easily. 1lvJ3s$|c@ - I would just remember the phrase "I love Jessica". or j0y2+H3wor|d - Joy to the World. These may seem rather lame, but consider that they are alphanumeric, plus symbols, longer than the average password, and I don't have to write them down. The most common passwords I've encountered has been the name of a significant other or pet, in plaintext. Phone numbers or street address numbers are also common. Of course, I don't see a great many passwords, certainly not the ones that people don't write down in an obvious place, so your mileage may vary. - Casey On Friday 14 December 2001 06:06 pm, Zeshan Ghory wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:29:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Is anyone familiar with a government or private study that surveyed the > > top 10 places to store passwords that were written down on paper; e.g. > > under the keyboard, etc? > > I would imagine that it would be very difficult to obtain enough > information to carry out such a survey effectively. > > Personally, I have certainly seen passwords (with corresponding > user names) written on post-it notes stuck to monitors, on > whiteboards, and sometimes just scribbled down on random bits of paper > lying on a desk. > > This is much more likely to occur if people are *given* passwords > instead of choosing their own. > > > Zeshan -- Casey Allen Shobe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
