nwrickert
sand groper
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join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL
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| reply to Mele20
Re: Stupid User Tricks: Password Selection - "WORD1"
The problem with long passwords, and especially all those numbers, is that you can't see what you are typing. My most important passwords are, I hope, hard to guess but easy enough for me to remember. There are very few of these.
For the rest, the passwords are in an encrypted file (actually an encrypted email to myself). I can decrypt, then cut and paste, to be sure I type it in correctly. The encryption pass phrase is one of those "most important passwords."
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Mele20
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join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Gee, mine are all in two different folders. One for banking and another for all other passwords. All passwords for the past more than 8 years are there...lots and lots of them. It is quite irritating to have to go look up a password every time I have login somewhere. The one for here is the only one I remember. I wish a fingerprint thingy worked with Fx...I think those still work only with IE.
I never have understood why I can't turn offthe hiding of the password I type. There is no one here to see it so why can't I turn that off? I should be able to do that. It should be turned off by default for home users seems to me.
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