I’m ****** done with ****** passwords

[unclebilly]

So trying to get my taxes filed, the tax software I have been using for over 20 years now needs me to set up an account on their system.

I’m just done with ****** passwords. I know bit to use the same one all the time. Not like you could anyway as every account seems to need a different amount of special characters etc.

I hate ****** passwords.

What are you using that actually works to track the 10 or so passwords we now seem to ‘need’ to conduct a simple life?

[SiberianDVM]

Chrome has a good password manager function

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by unclebilly

What are you using that actually works to track the 10 or so passwords we now seem to ‘need’ to conduct a simple life?

Google Chrome password manager, and change them every couple months.

[id10t]

Come up with a good strong base password - 8-12 characters, letters, numbers

Then append something unique for wherever you use it, ie if my base password is 3trees@ForMe! then my H&R account might be 3trees@ForMe!taxes

[Scott Douglas]

You can't really have a true hate for passwords until you've had to use them for work. Are forced to change them every 3 months. And have to remember cypher codes just to get to your office too.

[flatbutt]

I keep a small spiral notebook for passwords.

[astrochex]

I have nine accounts at work where I get to frequently change my password. Lucky me.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

I keep a small spiral notebook for passwords.

Me too but some are missing. You have to back up the back up.

[jyl]

I use a Password Manager app.

[unclebilly]

For our vacation request app, when my employees request vacation I need to remember a password that expired every 3 months AND input a 6 digit code that gets sent to my phone. Not texted to my phone, I have to get it from an app...

[aldente]

Passwords are nothing compared to the 2 factor BS

[gchappel]

Old joke:
During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password: "MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramen to". When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital.

[HardDrive]

I am in technology, and my 'password management' is a text file called cookie_receipe.txt. I print it out about once a year. As the year goes along, I update it with a pen. End of year, update the text file, print it out again. Feel free to make fun, but it works like champ. Zero hassles.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

I keep a small spiral notebook for passwords.

Bingo!

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

I keep a small spiral notebook for passwords.

Which rather ironically totally defeats the purpose of having a password that only you know.

Having worked with a number of big companies with ridiculous password requirements I have a special hatred for passwords and IT in general. With every data breach the requirements get more asinine, yet nobody ever gets their entire freaking company hacked because Bob used password as his password. So I contend that if IT was better at their job we could all have easier passwords.

[stevej37]

After you create a password....doesn't your computer save it for the next login??
Mine does.

[Jims5543]

I have them in a txt file on a USB drive I keep in my gun safe.

I read a story somewhere, a kept guy whose wife was a lawyer ended up widowed. The wife never shared any passwords with him.

He was locked out of everything important that needed to be taken care of.

Since reading that I purchased a cheap USB stick and put all my passwords and pertinent info in a text file on the stick. I gave my wife instructions regarding the info, just in case something were to happen.

I left my pronhub password off there. wink

[stomachmonkey]

Bitwarden.

If you are not using a password manager these days you're nuts.

I have 354 online accounts between business and personal.

Impossible to give each one a unique without some help and this is what makes a single data breach so dangerous for most people.

They will reuse the same password (and likely email address) for virtually everything.

One large database gets breached and a fair number of compromised accounts will yield an even bigger score because they know for fact the user pass combos are reused.

I actually know very few of my passwords, maybe 10 of them.

I let the password manager auto generate and autofill a unique for each site I have an account with.

In the event of a databreach I don't have to go running around changing every password to every account.

To address Jims comment. Password managers allow you to set a delegate.

LastPass lets you delegate your account access. Say you delegate your attorney. Something happens to you wife tells attorney, he fires off the access request and if it's not responded to within a timeframe 1 day, 2 days, a week, that the account owner specifies access is granted.

You can also share specific accounts, I shared all the Netflix, Amazon, HBO TV accounts with my daughter at school. If I have a need to change the password on an account she gets the update.

Pair that with some 2FA where you can and you are in pretty good shape.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by stevej37

After you create a password....doesn't your computer save it for the next login??
Mine does.

Yes, but it shouldn't and you should not use that or allow your web browser to do it either.

Someone gets access to your PC, they have access to everything.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Password manager is great until you share accounts across multiple devices. Then your random string of gibberish gets problematic.