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MsMarginalized
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28 Oct 2011, 8:23 pm

I just went & changed all my passwords (first change for a couple of accounts....dohhh).

What are some of your older ones?

Mine: 904-282-3612 (first ph. # I ever remembered for the family phone; it's not been our # for over 30 years now)

and my husbands previous service number/twice: K90856k90856

(I'll admitt, thinking of new passwords that I can REMEMBER is a pain, in a way I'm looking for new ideas here.... :)



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28 Oct 2011, 8:57 pm

i've use my SAT score as a pin.



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28 Oct 2011, 11:05 pm

cathylyn, that's a GOOD one!

I've also used previouse employer w/boss' first name:

BellAtlantic-clyde

(I have sooooooo many previouse employers; so lots of different industries...hmmm, there's a thought!)



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28 Oct 2011, 11:06 pm

k3DmTR5fwmPa8xLg



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28 Oct 2011, 11:10 pm

Fnord wrote:
k3DmTR5fwmPa8xLg


is there any kind of story behind this?



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29 Oct 2011, 12:04 am

MsMarginalized wrote:
Fnord wrote:
k3DmTR5fwmPa8xLg
is there any kind of story behind this?

It's the password that I used about five years ago for on-line banking.

I keep an encrypted record of all my on-line accounts. This record is also protected by a password that's 32 characters long.

It takes about a week for me to memorize a new 16-character password, and just a day or two longer for a 32-character one.

I've written utilities to generate random passwords that include upper-case, lower-case and the numerals 0 through 9. The possibility that any one password will be guessed is 1 out of 62 raised to the power of the length of the password.

'Sneat, huh?

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29 Oct 2011, 1:48 am

Reconsider posting your passwords online, people have a habit of reusing passwords sometimes without knowing.


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29 Oct 2011, 10:04 am

Ichinin wrote:
Reconsider posting your passwords online, people have a habit of reusing passwords sometimes without knowing.

That's why I keep a record. The password I posted is associated with a bank that treated me so badly that even the password has an emotional stigma attached to it.

Besides, with my system of generating passwords (and certain other protocols), it is extremely unlikely that I would ever use the same password twice.



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29 Oct 2011, 10:58 am

When I was a kid, I used 'prodigious' or 'prongs1'

Cuz I was obsessed with Digimon and Harry Potter.

I can't even remember what I used them for.
Well, I used one of them on a site that has since disappeared.


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29 Oct 2011, 3:44 pm

Ichinin wrote:
Reconsider posting your passwords online, people have a habit of reusing passwords sometimes without knowing.


Well then one *could* obfuscate it by putting in a "wrong" digit....this is just supposed to be for fun.... :wink:



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29 Oct 2011, 3:45 pm

DataJinx wrote:
Cuz I was obsessed with Digimon and Harry Potter.



I'm not so much a kid & have been known to be obsessed with the HP books....