Gaah! I hate this about the computer age!

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Gaah! I hate this about the computer age!

Too blankety-blank many passwords!
Every frigging thing you want to do online.

The "Internet Security" and "Identity Theft Prevention" experts say don't use the same passwords; don't write passwords down; don't keep them on a paper on you; don't keep them on a paper by the computer; don't set your computer to remember passwords; don't . . . and don't . . . and don't . . .

Which leads me to wonder, have these people ever actually been online?

dont use many passwords...i use like 3-4 on any sides

I don't use the Internet for anything important like banking, so I don't really care if I get hacked. The only accounts I wouldn't want hacked are this one, my email and my World of Warcraft account, and I have unique passwords for each of them. I still write down the passwords in a text file though. I have no clue how someone could remember all the passwords you need these days. For any other accounts I use a universal password, which is also in my text file. So I don't care about password security.

I use Opera to access sites I think are risky, and Firefox otherwise; there are very few viruses made for Firefox but virtually none for Opera. And I'm very careful about downloading files; I find the most trustworthy sites to download from are ones that are just plain, unstyled HTML with a casual tone, like this one: http://www.zompist.com/sounds.htm. When it sounds all commercial and tries to advertise itself, I am very cautious. So in other respects I'm quite careful about security.

I use sentences.

They're more complex and easier to remember than random strings of letters and numbers.

I keep my 500+ passwords (I never repeat a password, and the more important passwords are changed at least once a month) in a password protected database on my pda.

Then I just have to remember the one long string password.

I feel the same way about passwords.

It can get overwhelming, at work almost every database and app is password protected and I have to keep logging in throughout the day.

Very cool. I do the following: I take something related to what an ancestor did/was involved in and make a little three-four word phrase that connects it and make sure to put a year "close" to when it happened but off a little and I will also deliberately mis-spell a word so even if they know the people or the genealogical relationship to me they can't possible guess which letter I mis-spell: for example: C0lumbus1493mygreatgrandfathur. this makes it a cinch as each password has a theme.

In one case I thought I'd had an account hacked so I made up a new one like this: horriblelinkwillexplod3assoonnas113000z0mb1esattackcatharsistestingfrunchwqs87ft

No way to break that within reason.