I keep them hidden under the keyboard.
Under the keyboard works too. 
ETA: Ninja’ed!
I just quit using real answers and stuck with basically a backup password. Favorite color? Mona Lisa. My mother’s maiden name? Mona Lisa.
Really? Seriously? That’s not secure at all.
Under the keyboard it’s supposed to say, “Remember, this isn’t a safe place for a password. Look it top desk drawer.”
I’ve tried that. There are actually asshole systems out there that check for it and give you an error if you have the same answer for all the questions. :mad:
Hey, you know if you type in your SD password here it shows up as astericks? Check it out: **********
That’s why my password is all asterisks.
I haven’t encountered that but my workaround would be: Favorite color? “Mona Lisa color”. Mother’s maiden name? “Mona Lisa maiden”.
Yep. I can see him giving a fist-bump during the “Racial Draft”.
Really? That’s awesome! Let me try!
IwannamakelovetoGuinastasia<3
It would be easier if they told me the damn rules that they required to make the password when I try to enter it.
example: Knowing if they require a symbol or disallow symbols helps me remember what password I used with them.
I just went onto a new website & you had to choose three questions from the drop down list; they included:
[ul]
[li]What was the name of your first pet? (First pet, the dog they had until I was 2 & don’t really remember, or the first dog I got when living on my own?)[/li][li]City Mom born in [/li][li]City Dad born in (I know where my parents lived when they were born, but what city depends upon which hospital, which I don’t know.)[/li][li]First foreign country visited[/li][li]First & last name of childhood best friend[/li][li]First & Last name of first manager[/li][li]First & Last name of first girl/boyfriend[/li][li]First concert you attended[/li][li]What was the last name of your favorite teacher in your final year of school?[/li][li]What was your childhood nickname that most people do not know?[/li][/ul]
The rest of the questions are from decades ago; I couldn’t tell you some of answers if lives depended on it.
The following questions were also in the list but may not have a valid answer if you’re single, eloped, or are an only child.
[ul]
[li]First & last name of the maid/matron of honor at your wedding[/li][li]First & last name of the best man of honor at your wedding[/li][li]First & last name of oldest niece[/li][li]First & last name of oldest nephew[/li][/ul]
They don’t run a dossier on you, you know.
For the purposes of security questions, your first pet was named Johnny Goodboy, your dad was born in Smallville, you first visited Narnia with your best friend Anne of Green Gables, etc. Just be consistent with the answers you pick for questions.
Yes! And tell me what the damn requirements are BEFORE I try to create one.
I hope someone kicked him in the nads.
Our most restrictive password policy is for our SVN code respository:
It’s such that I have a hard time thinking up a password that I can remember. Fortunately, the password is store in clear text in my home directory structure (and the system remembers it so I only have to remember it long enough to get signed in the first time).
The repeated characters one is particularly troublesome - for instance “allMyChildren1” would not pass.
From back in the BBS days I have several 8 character random alphanumeric passwords memorized. Nowadays, to generate a password for work I just string two of them together with a ‘special character’ or two in between. Then I can write myself a hint by just writing the first character of the two strings and the special character. For the ones I have to change every 30 days I just change the special character. I only do this for work passwords because there are spaces where I work that I can’t bring my phone into. Otherwise, I keep the other 8 gazzilion internet passwords in 1Password on my phone/computer and they are whatever 1Password generated.
This seems strange. Can you elaborate?
Yeah, I was fixing to say. Seems like a huge security risk.
Absolutely. Especially because he has a running thing about not being able to remember his passwords. I had to read the article three times to make sure I wasn’t reading some comedy thing he threw up on a satire site or something.