Sunday, September 16, 2012

Going Viral

One could post about the advisability of clicking on the wrong part of an unsavoury website, or the benefits of keeping one's anti-virus up to date......

..... but it is when all your auto-storage of passwords is consigned to history that the full impact of losing one's usual computer hits home.

One could post on the joys & hardships of trying every password combination possible, only to be locked out of websites by this message: Account suspended due to too many password attempts.

... Mine Host has now winched up a bucket of water from the memory well, and has drunk the elixir contained therein. All passwords are now stored in the super safe location of an A4 page blu-tacked to his office wall, in a word document in every computer, on a card carried in his briefcase, inside his suitcase, and just about everywhere else except tattooed upside down on his tummy.

Regular posting will now resume.....

4 comments:

mojo said...

PasswordSafe: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net

It will run from a thumb drive, stores passwords in encrypted DB, opened with a master keyphrase.

Tip top.

kae said...

LOL
My passwords, IDs and all my personal contact emails are in a little black book and also a little purple book.
I hope that way when I lose something (my mind?) I'll still have two back ups!

Steve at the Pub said...

Thanks... you wouldn't think you'd forget passwords so easily.

I could always use the (cough) same password for everything... except not all websites & accounts will accept the same style of password!

Veeshir said...

Open a freemail account, such as Hotmail, start an email with your passwords and "save a draft".

Wherever you are, if you have Internet access, you only have to remember the one password to the freemail account.