While prefixing your "favorite" passwords helps, it's still exploitable. If someone can see your password in the "clear" they'll be able to tell if you're using

While prefixing your "favorite" passwords helps, it's still exploitable. If someone can see your password in the "clear" they'll be able to tell if you're using a strategy like this. I have too many accounts---and what happens when you have collisions? Did I use "f" for facebook and flickr or "fa" and "fl" for them? I'd rather be consistent with a tool than with a meatspace algorithm: http://keepass.info/ http://keepass.info/ is probably more reliable and secure in the long run. I've long since abandoned trying to keep authentication data in my personal meatspace and I don't recommend meatspace methods anymore /except/ for securing your authentication database.