Originally Posted by the_traveler
While the statement about not having the same password is partially true, you can have the same password for different accounts being the same. I use a 4 digit password that is the same for all of my accounts that need a 4 digit password. If the account needs a 5 digit password, then I use the same 5 digit one for all the similar accounts. If the account needs an alphanumeric password, I try to use the same one for all similar accounts.
This way, I only have 3 or 4 passwords to remember - not 20 or 30 different ones. If I try to enter a 4 digit password, and it says it's wrong and must be 5 digits, I know to use the other one. (Not try to remember what password goes to which account.) I try to do the same with the account names - also less things to remember.
I know that I'm taking a chance, being that if someone found out my password they would have the password for many accounts. But is this any less safe than having an Excel worksheet and Post-It Notes lying around with this same information?
Still I dissagree.
First, let's not worry about security because unlike say, Microsoft or some bank, I do not necessarily feel as though I am targeted for some sort of hacking efforts online. I may be, but for now, the security of the world of passwords and people finding out about them is not my beaf here.
I have accounts with all the airlines. I know AA uses a 6 digit pw and it is similar to ones where a 4 digit one is used.
my ebay asked me to make a new one, and it is no longer related to the above, where it once was. I have two banks who do the same thing yearly and now I have had to make up entirely new things. they are all things I can remember but sometimes, you just have to scratch the head and think!
Verzion and MCI have different requirements, two --no, make that 3 web sites I manage have ones that require THEIR own password, and so does a bank account I have in Holland. I had no choice in what they picked for me and you cannot change them in my case.
a few organizations I am a member of have all letters, and then there are all the passwords my family members had used for their own miles gigs that I now manage for them. Things change, girlfriends (who you named a password after) change, rules change, and memory is filled with other stuff.
I use Northwest, United and AA right now and so if I fly a partner like Delta, I will put the miles on NWA. For this reason, I may FORGET (at least temporaily) the password to my Delta account and so I have to look it up.
We can only fit so much info on this subject into our heads!
My workplace has TWO passwords to get into its intranet and timehseet links and they are backwards but hey, they pay the bills.
i can go on and on.
point is: the person who posted Norton Password Manager has possibly just awakend me to something I have indeed been seeking for a long long time.
This, if it really does what I want it to, will be something I will spend money on! I can then know only one password and let the rest live online where I can get them whether I be at the office where a post it note has an encripted MM only code on it for my office stuff, or in Tahiti on vacation in some internet cafe checking to see if my mortgage company got the check I sent it right before take off!
So thanks to that person.
Clueless people who blow off big business perks (as said in other posts) however, SHOULD start cluttering their feable minds with that which gives them free first class travel! I do agree that idiots are idiots. I am not one, but I am saying there may be reason why some people do not join things.
MM