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I have different levels of passwords: 1) Doesn't matter, it's fairly weak and I use it for spammy stuff. 2) It matters, I use it for accounts I care about, bu
by pmichaud 17y ago
I have different levels of passwords:
1) Doesn't matter, it's fairly weak and I use it for spammy stuff.
2) It matters, I use it for accounts I care about, but nothing that would ruin my life. It's strong, but it's used in a couple places.
3) Banks, etc -- these all get can't-crack-it-in-1000-years passwords that are all different.
I have them written down long hand, but I think the chance of an arbitrary burglar making it through my dog, alarm system, up stairs to my office, then ignoring my 5 monitors and 3 nice computers in favor of a nondescript stack of papers on a book shelf, then getting away with said papers, and using them to break into my bank accounts seems kind of far fetched. Call me crazy.
- cookiecaper 17y agoAlso, if your house burns down, you're screwed or something. You should keep them in an encrypted file that you also uploaded to your web server or email or something. And you should probably memorize a couple master passwords -- long, strong passwords for your secret key and your email.
- pmichaud 17y agoLuckily one of my talents that happens to not be useless (unlike most of them...) is memorizing long strings of arbitrary digits. I could still get into most of my accounts. In any case, there's password recovery.