My concern with only memorizing important passwords is the care and feeding of my survivors (still a youngster at 62, but...) I place all my passwords in my hard copy and digital survivor files, one with my wife another with my son. They are in a code that is very easy for 'them' to remember so a casual observer still won't know the passwords. John John Wylie Consulting - Professional Genealogists john@johnwylie.com www.johnwylie.com 2662 Carrington Lane, Grand Prairie TX 75052 972-206-2723 Cell 214-732-9412 -----Original Message----- From: Joan L. Asche [mailto:jasche45133@aol.com] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 7:08 AM To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [Gen-Comp-Tips] suggestions for keeping up with Passwords For what it is worth....Those passwords so important that they need to be protected (i.e. bank accounts, paypal, ebay. etc.) are in my head...memorized. Not in my computer, on index cards, or a memo book. Not ever my significant other has access to these passwords. I do keep passwords on my computer that are low priority such as forums etc. Lance wrote on 9/17/2004, 7:57 AM: > An excellent point Kerryn, and one that can be overcome by NOT using > Internet Explorer. By switching to Mozilla/Firefox there is a feature > called Password Manager. But, what about hackers who might "steal" the > passwords from the browser? Well, Mozilla's programmers made it harder > for them to steal passwords. In addition to your profile's path never > being the same (this is why they added the "df745kdtk.slt" folder - it > always has a different name, hence there's always a different path to > your profile), Mozilla can also encrypt your stored information. While > there is no such thing as perfect security, you just need to be a harder > target than the average Internet Explorer user :-). > > Download Firefox 1.0 from: > http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ > > Lance ==== GEN-COMP-TIPS Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from this list send a message to GEN-COMP-TIPS-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237