Category: Geeks r Us
It is possible we have discussed this topic before, but I don't fully remember.
In this age of everything having a user name or password, and so many account numbers, what are some of your best safety tips?
I keep nearly everything in my braille speak. I figure it is unlikely a blind thief is going to come and take my bs to find out all that info. *lol*
My concern is, my bs has crashed before and when it happens this time around, I probably won't replace it.
How about storing a file on one of those flash drives where you can create a password to lock them up? Do y'all imagine they are farely secure?
I suppose I could go the really old fashion route and braille everything on notecards, but that isn't too convenient, when experation dates need to be changed.
What are your thoughts? What storage methods do you use?
Change your password often, you could have it as password, and then every two weeks add to it, password1, password2, password3, so on so on. I do not do this but have heard of this. Its hard to have the same password and user name for everything because not everything will let you have six or so carictor as your password and some are picky about how your user name is and most of all, someone might already have it. I change my passwords often, but I useually remember them. I don't ever have one password the same as others. but i have a pritty good memory for that. But what does stump me are those questions things. If you forget your passwords and have to answer the questions, I never remember those, So I have three answers that i use no matter what the question.
the most secure password is one that is both alpha and numerical
Also, it is exponentially difficult the more characters you add to your password.
This is my tip, and I highly recommend you adopt it.
Think of a phrase, or a long word.
e.g.
correspondence
that is 14 characters
Now, replace some of those letters with a number.
c o r r e s p o n d e n c e
c 0 r r 3 s p 0 n d 3 n c 3
As you can see, there is no amount of guessing that will break that. Also, they would have to use a software that will do a force decrypter in order to break it. You know the key word, and you know how it is applied. Even if a person were to guess the word on a chance, such person can not break it thinking that you only used letters.
also, a code breaker using a dictionary as comparison can't break it.
Finally, if you speak another language, pick an english word, translate it in to your language and then apply the combination of letters and numbers as the password.
In w w II, code talks were used to create a new code of speech. A very affective method.
Yeah password 1 and so one is a bad idea cuz a dictionary bruit password cracker would crack that in less that a minute the above poster has a good point about mixing numbers and letters and the like. another thing is to take a password you use on every site and then add parts of that url into the password, and use a formaula that you can remember... oh and don't tell anyone your formula.
Thank you all. How about storing all this info? User names, account numbers, passwords etc? Do you have a secure location, or is it all in your head?
I think what you're looking for is called truecrypt. It encrypts anything anywhere. So you can store your credit card number or the social security numbers into any file or device that's password protected