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sanity_clause

Password keywords

Mar 23, 2007 21:35

sarcasma just posted about a password security problem she had, and it got me thinking about managing all the passwords you need to be secure on the net ( Read more... )

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sanity_clause March 24 2007, 17:05:35 UTC

Are you putting them in the pancakes this morning? Syrup fixes everything.

listersgirl March 24 2007, 02:27:05 UTC

That's very clever, although there might be cases where sites have specific password requirements that wouldn't fit in - the punctuation, for example, seems like it would be a problem occasionally. But I suppose people could manage to remember *one* other password. :)

sanity_clause March 24 2007, 17:05:05 UTC

Thanks for reminding me! I forgot to mention that. The best approach is to use punctuation that is available on the number keys, so if you try a version with the punctuation that doesn't work, it should be easy to try the version with the number from the same key. Or use l33t sp34k letter/symbol pairs like '$' and 'S' or '@' and 'a'.

In either case, '!' and '1' would make a very easy to remember variant.

dramaqueen_23 March 24 2007, 04:10:54 UTC

This is *awesome* advice!