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| "Sorry, username and password do not match."
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| Friday, March 28, 2008
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 Argh. Getting rather sick of getting this prompt every time I sign onto some registered website/application/network that I have not been to in a while. It's rather confusing for me because I have to many things I signed up for and many variations for passwords that I sometimes forget which password is for which accounts that I have!
In some secured sites like my bank transactions or school accounts, if I try the wrong password three times, I would then have to go through hell - going down tot the bank/school personally to tell them that I am a doofus for forgetting my password - before I can reset my password.
What sometimes is MORE frustrating is that some sites and my school network (yes, I'm griping about my sch network again) that my password has to be more than 12 characters long, a mix of alpha and numeric characters, with at least one capital letter or punctuation mark. *deep sigh. Worse thing is, my school makes us change passwords every 3 months!! My gawd. In my three years of my university life, I have practically exhausted all possible combinations.
My hubby takes the easy way out. As Lord of the Rings would put it - one password to rule them all. So yeah, if you manage to get one password out of him, there is a high chance you are able to access many of his accounts. (I think he'll be so pissed I let the cat out of the bag! lol).
Another of my group mates in my social media class - *waves at Isaac, who is a techie guy recommended that I first numerically list all my passwords on a post-it note. Then have an excel sheet that lists all the accounts I have and then create two columns to show my username and a numeric digit to represent one password from that post it note. Although it is a techie way to resolve the issue but once I lose that post-it note, I'm basically back at square one. Lol.
Oh well... passwords are definitely important to ensure that your accounts stay with you and others are not able to access your information easily. But then, passwords can sometimes even lock its owners out should they be like me to forget the passwords. In the words of one of my good guy friends - "Passwords are like women. If you don't get the answers to their questions right the first time. You will NOT get access to them tonight."
Any tips to help me remember my passwords better? :)
*Shanea Out (password crazy) @ 8:44pm* |
posted by Jasmine Shanea @ 8:29 PM
 
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I have that problem too, I've often thought about writing them all down somewhere. I'm paranoid though lol, thinking well if someone breaks into my house and steals my computer and finds my paper then they can access all my stuff.
Yeah, maybe a little too paranoid LOL, but I think I'm going to have to do it because it seems I sign up for something new almost every day, right now I have several passwords that I use over and over, would be nice to use more variety just to be sure, I would just never remember them.
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Oh how I can relate to that. Especially being locked out of my bank account.
My latest computers came with a lovely feature that stores my log-ins, which makes my life 100 times easier to deal with... until I am away from my own computer and have to try to remember the passwords :)
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I can relate! I do this with my credit card account all the time. Too many passwords!!
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Oh I have the same problem. I nnow just jot everything down in a little book I keep by my pc. Of course if someone gets hold of it, I'm screwed... lol
Happy Weekend =)
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Hahaha, I use a 4 passwords for every site I ever log into online. If I can't remember one of them, I just cycle through all four. One of them has to work!!!
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I'm afraid I'm not much help. I'm always forgetting my passwords Aand forgetting to write them down somewhere. Or writing them down and forgetting where I put the scrap of paper I wrote them on. Or finding the scrap of paper and not knowing what the password is for. LOL. I'm hopeless!!! So I can understand your pain!!! :)
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One possible solution is to have a constant prefix or suffix for your passwords and then use part of the website as the rest. For example, you might pick "xt34J" as your prefix and then decide to use the first three letters of the website URL as the rest: in your case "jas" for this site giving "xt34Jjas". Now all you have to do is remember the prefix and you should never forget another password.
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Check out Roboform. There's a free version that will allow you to store up to 10 passwords, and a shareware version that will allow you to store an unlimited amount. I use it all the time, and wouldn't be without it. There's also Roboform2Go, which works from a thumb drive, so you can take it anywhere. :)
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What's ironic is that the stronger password requirements get, the weaker they are in the real world. When a site requires users to create complex passwords and then even worse, changes them frequently, users have to write them down. And that, of course, defeats the entire purpose of having a password.
My work laptop has a fingerprint reader which helps. I can go to a website and I only need to know my user ID and password once. I type them, swipe my finger on the fingerprint reader, and the next time I go there, I just have to swipe my finger again. It makes things a lot easier.
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Thanks everyone for letting me know that I am not alone in this password recollection crisis. Lol... Thanks Mark, Solomon and Cromely for providing tips for remembering passwords better.
Although I personally don't really trust sites to remember passwords for me and I guess will have to resort to recycling like Jillian and somehow take more vitamins to ensure that my mind continues to remember as many passwords as possible. :)
Thanks for all the comments. Really appreciate that you guys take time to write something!
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I have that problem too, I've often thought about writing them all down somewhere. I'm paranoid though lol, thinking well if someone breaks into my house and steals my computer and finds my paper then they can access all my stuff.
Yeah, maybe a little too paranoid LOL, but I think I'm going to have to do it because it seems I sign up for something new almost every day, right now I have several passwords that I use over and over, would be nice to use more variety just to be sure, I would just never remember them.