Comments on: Passwords: I hates them

By: lomlate

lomlate — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:46:35 +0000

I wonder if any of these password managers have windows mobile applications or iPhone applications. If you were able to bring up the password on your mobile phone then it would remove the issue of signing into a website when you’re away from your normal computer.

By: DeusExMacintosh

DeusExMacintosh — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:22:40 +0000

Rafe. Que?

By: Rafe

Rafe — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:45:27 +0000

So you don’t care about Chinese people getting into your email? Whoops, my mistake, they need to know the word as well as the number.
My handwriting is bad enough to ensure that nobody else can read mine. Actually I can’t read it eiher, it is just a kind of visual prompt. But after this spell away I will probably have to grovel to the system manager to let me in and reset the password.

By: Rafe

Rafe — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:38:37 +0000

Great minds think alike SL.

Deus, I think it was the reverse of private use of public property, more like taking work home. In this situation the crime may be a bit like exceeding the speed limit by 1 kph in excellent driving conditions to get a sick person to hospital.

Incidentally on the topic of using email at work for private purposes, we are informed that ALL our emails in principle belong to the firm (actually the State government). This is no big deal for legitimate use (like the telephone) but we also have to certify at LOGON that we are not using the system for commercial purposes, violating harassment codes and a few other things.

BTW I have been on extended leave for some weeks so this matter is academic just at present.

By: abj

abj — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:11:04 +0000

Bruce Schneier, well-known computer security pandit, also stores passwords in his wallet. From the Freakonomics blog, http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/bruce-schneier-blazes-through-your-questions/

By: pete m

pete m — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:55:43 +0000

roboform is also good.

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By: Legal Eagle

Legal Eagle — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:27:11 +0000

As I’ve already said in other posts, I have terrible trouble remembering passwords and pins. Usually I have to make up rhymes or invent patterns which will help me remember them. I like it when I get to make up my own security questions, because then I can make them cryptic so that no one other than myself could answer them.

Rafe, I also used to change the number at the end of my password at work. I’d write the new number in Chinese on my computer.

By: Rafe

Rafe — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:00:46 +0000

At work I got over the “change password” problem by putting a number at the end of the word and incrimenting by one each time. But I have to write the number on the case of the computer to remember what it is,

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:52:08 +0000

Yeah, there is a Mac version (that’s why I use it). The X stands for ‘cross platform’. There is a Keepass which is windows only.

I have both a windows machine (at work) and a Mac at home. Using KeepassX on both with a synched DB file works a treat.