Comments on: Change Your Password… And Do So Often

By: Geda Masters

Geda Masters — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:14:52 +0000

I’m not sure if it’s prudent to do this but this technique has worked for me. I have two words and four number combinations that I just kind of rotate from time to time in all of my accounts. It’s easier for me that way.
It works like this. An example of two words are happy and beautiful. Of course, those words should hold meaning to you so you’ll remember them. The number combinations could be (as an example): 6578, 31011, 75849, 2094. Those numbers should hold meaning to you, as well. Just don’t choose birthdays. A combination of birthdays or anniversaries would be better. You can rotate your passwords like this:
word1#combi1, word1#combi2, etc.
word2#combi2, word2#combi2

You have a big list of combinations you can chooose from. See what I mean?

By: Mark Drew

Mark Drew — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:20:08 +0000

Passwords
- my advice never less than 8 characters preferably 10 or more.
- one or more upper case characters / special characters
- two or more numerics
- use a memorable word or phrase e.g. christmas and enter it as Chr1$tm4$ where i = 1 s= $ a = 4

By: Timothy Castolle

Timothy Castolle — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:07:57 +0000

I know how it feels, Samantha. I got this tip from an article somewhere or from a comment on this blog. I really can’t quite remember where nor can I remember exactly how it was phrased. But, it went something like use a password that is relevant to the site but is still difficult to decipher by others.

It is much like putting a password on a social media site like “whereIm33tfri3nds”. Long enough and have diverse characters and yet it is highly improbable for most people to get it. Same with bank accounts, too. I ‘m sure you a purpose of each bank account and you can come up with at least two words that are relevant to that purpose for you to use as a password. Made sense?

By: Adrian Peters

Adrian Peters — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:08:26 +0000

If you have a different password for every site, then you only have to worry about one at a time in case of compromise. Now obviously for some of us, that’s asking you to remember dozens of passwords, which may not exactly be ideal. The suggestion of keeping at least the email and banking passwords unique is a great start, but any site that you have sensitive identification or financial content contained in should be unique as well. Depending on how thorough you are filling out profiles, this should be extended to social networks.

By: Samantha Jenners

Samantha Jenners — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:07:27 +0000

Oh the pain! I hate changing several my passwords. I end up having to reset my passwords because I don’t remember my new passwords. And who can remember every password for multiple sites? I bank with five banks, have a PayPal account, am signed up with all popular media sites (LinkedIn included) and two corporate email accounts and three other personal ones.

But, I need to do it. And so does everybody else.