Re: Any IT people with a lot of passwords?

[Anonymous]

I soooo sympathise with you Bill. I would hate to remember multiple passwords that I haven’t chosen. The very few I have (that I did not select myself) are years old and are short, and I still manage to forget them at times. One of mine I remember because it was a postcode – not intentionally, but I noticed that it had the right amount of numbers etc for a postcode, and googling turned up the name of the place it was a postcode for. Made it much easier to remember, because a place name could be written down in many forms (eg. xxxxxxx caravan park) in a diary or in a phone memory, and the actual code wasn’t there in plain view. The other codes have escaped me, but I do try to make words out of them, or find some other way I can jog my memory without writing the code itself down.

Hubby used to have to change his work password every month, and he would pick a set password, then add something like 01, 02, 03, or Aug, Sep, Oct, or similar (to correspond to the month), to a set place in his password when it was time to change, and he would also have the year (either in numerical form, or the animal that it was the year of…Boar, Tiger, Dog) so that he could continue the trend for many years, but not be TOO predictable. Now he is unable to keep any part of his old password when he changes it, but he still manages to remember them all….but he gets to choose them, which is a huge bonus.

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