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Poll - Who Keeps Your Passwords

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Um.. If I die then no1 will get my password. Everything that is passworded will need to be cracked.

reply to exocet_cm
My computer is on 24/7 with battery ups backup,if I died the only reason anyone would need a password is if they turned the computer off.

But!! If there was a power failure the battery backup would only run for so long,so I guess in that case they would need a password.

Which only I would know. So oh well F**k em than.
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reply to exocet_cm
Passwords for what?

reply to exocet_cm
A bit confusing. Since it is multiple choice, I gave multiple answers even though they might seem to contradict.

The problem is that there are different kinds of passwords.

There are the passwords used for banking and similar businesses. Those are shared with another person.

There are passwords for work computer accounts. Those are not shared with anybody.

Then there are "throw away" passwords for web sites (including dslr). Nobody other than me needs them, so if they are lost when I die - too bad.

And most of them are also in an encrypted file that exists on several computers, so that failure of one hard drive won't result in their loss. The encryption passphrase is not recorded anywhere (other than in my memory).
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reply to exocet_cm
Uhm... what bank account?

Computer? Logs on without password. nothing important on here - except maybe some auto-logons at various "sites".
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reply to exocet_cm
I use Roboform so there's a database of encrypted passwords for logging into websites on the local system. Anyway, that's how I voted. There are other passwords, such as the logon to my laptop which I keep to myself.

reply to nwrickert

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A bit confusing. Since it is multiple choice, I gave multiple answers even though they might seem to contradict.

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reply to exocet_cm
Nicely executed poll, exocet_cm.

We use Roboform exclusively. I made three selections.

Myself and fetching Mrs. each have our own USB stick with Robo portable (I chose USB Encrypted).

Course, all box-based passwords are encrypted by Roboform (I chose Local System Encrypted).

And, I backup all Roboform passwords to DVD (chose DVD Encrypted).

(I also backup all passwords, doubly encrypted, to online storage, Amazon S3, and should have chosen Encrypted Other, my bad.)
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reply to exocet_cm
Encrypted in my brain.

reply to exocet_cm
keep em all in my head.. no one else (yet..) has access so it's most secure. (and no, I don't get drunk and blabber-mouthy)

reply to exocet_cm
I have a small notebook containing my passwords. There's stuff going back to the mid 1990s (many defunct sites) so it's time to prune them down quite a bit.

reply to exocet_cm
I use Roboform also... far to hard to keep track of all of them otherwise....

reply to exocet_cm
All are kept in my head... however, i guess I should make a CD with them.... question is, how do you encrypt them... and what do you do with the password for the encryption?
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I use PGP (really GnuPG) to encrypt. The passphase for my PGP key is remembered. I don't write that anywhere. I use it often enough (even if only for checking my password file) that I am not likely to forget it.

reply to exocet_cm
I use Roboform.

reply to exocet_cm
Firefox

reply to exocet_cm
Encrypted in Roboform