Specifically, the joy of devising a new password that meets minimum safety requirements (6 characters, mix of letters and numbers, doesn’t contain any dictionary words) that I know I will always remember.
\nI have a pool of about 15 passwords in my head – I mostly remember which ones go with which applications, and if i don’t I usually get it on the second or third try. All of these passwords have been with me for about a decade and a half (hey, that’s about one a year!), moving from place to place and institution to institution. When I have to change a password, I swap it for another of my golden fifteen. There’s a lot of double ups – I think I have about forty or so logins in different places around workplaces and the internet.
\nMany of my 15 passwords are acronyms. Take the first letter of each word in a saying, song lyric or movie quote, and you’re underway. Mix it up a bit – some letters you can replace with numbers because they look similar or the words they reference are actually numbers. Mix case up and down if your password is case-sensitive; put the emphasis words in capitals. Easy as pie to remember, and very much uncrackable. (e.g. a password devised from that song from Grease “You’re the one that I want” => “Yt1tiW”)
\nAnd now, using a variation of the above scheme, I have come up with a new password. It delights me because it is so simple and so memorable yet still quite safe. It is a strange thing to take pleasure in, but there you go. I’ll probably still be using this new password in another fifteen years.
\nSo. Got passwords? How do you manage to remember yours? Do you discard old passwords forever or keep them around in your head to use in other places?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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