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How Do You Remember Passwords and Pin Numbers

 
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MA_TESOL



Joined: 11 Nov 2007
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 4:15 pm    Post subject: How Do You Remember Passwords and Pin Numbers Reply with quote

I have about 20 passwords to remember and 5 pins numbers, if I don't use them often enough, I forget them. I have already forgotten some. I do have a password generator, but the other day it got corrupted and I had to reinstall, so I lost all the passwords. What is your system for this
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poet13



Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 4:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use a cipher so I only have to remember a sentence. Only words of a certain length are passwords. When I get a new password, drop a password, or change one, I either add a word, take a word out, or change one. My sentence is currently not grammatically correct, but I won't forget it. All I have to remember is the key. Damn...what was that key again?
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nobbyken



Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most of my passwords are the same word.
I changed many pin numbers to the same number.

So only really 1 password and base number to remember.
I keep emailed passwords that were sent to me.

I did forget one telepin I hadn't changed, and it asked for it last week to activate a card. I know have to go through the trouble of sending a passport copy and signature to the company. Apparently my birthdate never matched either.
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Join Me



Joined: 14 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same login name for everything (except Daves') and two different passwords. One password is my primary for the few accounts I wouldn't want others getting into (banks, credit card) and the other is my secondary which really wouldn't kill me if anyone got their hands on. Been doing it like this for almost 15 years and no problems so far. Try to keep passwords to 4 digits and put a couple zeros on the ends of ones I can't.
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daskalos



Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca

PostPosted: Sat May 31, 2008 12:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Variations on a theme in another language, so that even if I forget one in particular, I can get to it before the magic number of three tries and you're locked out. This is for the important ones. For the bullshit ones I don't care about, something random that I write down and put in a secret lock box, should I ever decide to visit that site again.
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KYC



Joined: 11 May 2006

PostPosted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

same psw/pins. Just change it every once in a while
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peppermint



Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I moved around a lot as a kid, so I use old towns/ street / school names or numbers a lot of the time.
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Pligganease



Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...

PostPosted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I write them on the things I need to remember. I have a Sharpie and I write the different PINs and Passwords in the corner of my cards, computers, and such. It's very helpful.
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