I usta do that. Then I had a head crash. The /grief/ I went through to get access to all my sites, shouldn't happen to a dawg. In fact, I never DID get access to one site ... It's now a cobweb emeritus. ;) My point being, that if your passwords aren't written down, and your computer dies, password manager may not do you a lot of good. Cheryl Diana Gale Matthiesen wrote: > Good grief, those statistics are appalling. I sympathize with what a > PITA it is to have many passwords, but that's a good reason to use a > password manager. I log in once, at the beginning of each computer > session, then my password manager automatically fills in my passwords, > all of which are quite strong (12 or more characters long, with a mix > of lower case and capital letters, numbers, and at least one symbol). > The only password I use in more than one place is the one to my > RootsWeb mailing lists - I use one for all of them. The only > passwords I do not allow my password manager to handle are the ones to > my bank and PayPal. Those are committed to memory and not written > down, anywhere. > > Diana > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:listowners- >> bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of W David Samuelsen >> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 6:43 PM >> To: listowners@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [LO] Secure Passwords >> >> http://csis.org/blog/large-e-mail-phishing-scheme-continues-unfold >> - >> this was dated June 25, 2012. >> >> "A researcher who examined the list of stolen accounts found that >> the >> most commonly used password was "123456." Further, 42% used >> lowercase >> letters a-z and only 6% mixed alpha-numeric characters with other >> characters. 20% of the passwords were only 6 letters long. A >> recent >> report by the security firm Sophos found that 40% of people used the >> same password for every website. While phishing schemes prey on all >> users, these statistics strongly demonstrate that internet-users >> need to >> be smarter and more aware in choosing passwords that are more >> difficult >> to crack (using capitalized letters, symbols, and numbers together), >> and >> to vary the passwords they use on the internet." >> >> W. David Samuelsen

Thought I’d share our method of “remembering” and securing passwords: My husband and I have created Word documents with our passwords, then password protected those documents. We keep a copy of each others on our separate computers, and know each others passwords to open them. This way we only need to remember the “master” passwords to retrieve “forgotten” passwords. This way if one of us can’t remember for some reason, or one of our computers should crash, we know how to retrieve that information. From: singhals Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:21 PM To: listowners@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LO] Secure Passwords I usta do that. Then I had a head crash. The /grief/ I went through to get access to all my sites, shouldn't happen to a dawg. In fact, I never DID get access to one site ... It's now a cobweb emeritus. ;) My point being, that if your passwords aren't written down, and your computer dies, password manager may not do you a lot of good. Cheryl Diana Gale Matthiesen wrote: > Good grief, those statistics are appalling. I sympathize with what a > PITA it is to have many passwords, but that's a good reason to use a > password manager. I log in once, at the beginning of each computer > session, then my password manager automatically fills in my passwords, > all of which are quite strong (12 or more characters long, with a mix > of lower case and capital letters, numbers, and at least one symbol). > The only password I use in more than one place is the one to my > RootsWeb mailing lists - I use one for all of them. The only > passwords I do not allow my password manager to handle are the ones to > my bank and PayPal. Those are committed to memory and not written > down, anywhere. > > Diana > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: listowners-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:listowners- >> bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of W David Samuelsen >> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 6:43 PM >> To: listowners@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [LO] Secure Passwords >> >> http://csis.org/blog/large-e-mail-phishing-scheme-continues-unfold >> - >> this was dated June 25, 2012. >> >> "A researcher who examined the list of stolen accounts found that >> the >> most commonly used password was "123456." Further, 42% used >> lowercase >> letters a-z and only 6% mixed alpha-numeric characters with other >> characters. 20% of the passwords were only 6 letters long. A >> recent >> report by the security firm Sophos found that 40% of people used the >> same password for every website. While phishing schemes prey on all >> users, these statistics strongly demonstrate that internet-users >> need to >> be smarter and more aware in choosing passwords that are more >> difficult >> to crack (using capitalized letters, symbols, and numbers together), >> and >> to vary the passwords they use on the internet." >> >> W. David Samuelsen