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password advice: come up with a system known only to you that generates passwords based on what sort of site you're one. you can base it on the web address, th
by nazgulnarsil 17y ago
password advice: come up with a system known only to you that generates passwords based on what sort of site you're one. you can base it on the web address, the company name, general category, whatever. now feed that through your algorithm and you have a unique password for each website you visit. if you forget a password you can re-derive it, since there will only be a handful of possibilities. since you'll certainly have your algorithm memorized you never need to write anything down.
- ableal 17y agoThis is much better advice than the "3 categories of password" the GP mentioned. Actually, 3 categories plus derivation is good ;-) The other day I was glad of that. I bought a game, was asked to create an account, typed in a password at the site; then received a confirmation email with the password in plain text - which probably means they are stored in plain text, not to mention left lying around in mail archives. Just a matter of time until one of those sites gets hacked and their DBs circulated. (P.S. I did write them a polite note suggesting not doing it, and they seem to at least have stopped sending passwords in email; I don't have much hope about their storing hashes. Probably plenty of others less blatant but just as insecure ...)