storing your passwords: classic or dud?

you know.... gmail, facebook, myspazz, twatter, ilx, etc

convenience vs extra security?

i'm so torn.

prob safest to store them right here on this thread tbh

p@nc@ke030482
ch33sep1zz@
cupc@ke123183

lol j/k

beltpisser

my password for everything^^^

does that include underground gentlemens clubs?

has anyone else ever had the problem where you pick a sort of embarrassing password at work, and then one day you're gone and someone needs to get into your files, and you're like "umm, sure, boss, my password is, umm ... beltpisser ... it's a reference to my favorite Czech poet, Bel Tpisser"

yes, to get into my underground gentlemen's club that i run, Le Belt Pissoir, just use that password, come inside, and make it rain

xp yea, this has happened w/ passwords that i've used for various things since like junior high. my wife needed one of them recently, and was like, "wtf is this u dork"

beltpisser was also the name of my band in the early 90's--we had kind of a Dazzling Killmen/Skin Graft/Cows vibe going

I would bet there is someone, somewhere on earth, who has gotten caught out hard on a work password like "(boss's name)sucks" or "ihatemyj0b"

"fuckthisplace"

"ineedtoupdatemyresume"

Corporate intranet went down a while ago, and had to get my password from the webmaster, it had been so long since I had to log in I couldn't remember what it was. He calls me up and says, "uhm...your password is...uh..."buttface"?"

boglog - easy to type, just change the vowels when necessary

and void the bowels as required

sorry wrong thread

oh i doubt that

has anyone else ever had the problem where you pick a sort of embarrassing password at work, and then one day you're gone and someone needs to get into your files, and you're like "umm, sure, boss, my password is, umm ... beltpisser ... it's a reference to my favorite Czech poet, Bel Tpisser"

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:41 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

had a prof who did online security at a big brokerage and said this is very common. People didn't realize their passwords would be used in phone verifications so there were a lot of awkward conversations.

on the flip side, assigning employee passwords that they can't change can be pretty lol. had one today that was "rumpbats15".

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8542

lastpass is a pretty solid add-on for firefox if you have a ton of different passwords.

fuck the whole concept of passwords

I just tried to buy a pair of headphones on a website, it took me to the mastercard securecode thing that I used ONCE EVER about a year ago the last time I bought headphones, I entered the password, it said NO and made me enter the answer to my security question, I entered the correct answer, it said NO and blocked my card. Yeah helpful, good work security dorks.

Whenever I have to call my bank is, they ask me what my phone-only password is. One, I can't remember it. I always say something that sounds probable but is also invariably disgusting (and wrong) so that starts the conversation with a total stranger who is handling my money off to a fine start. Two, does it make anyone else feel vulnerable and odd to say a password out loud? Like saying the name of AURYN out loud?

Yeah, and my bank password is rude so everyone in the office always laughs at me.

FWIW, I broke down and bought a password management app that syncs with Mac and iPhone. Works well http://www.acrylicapps.com/wallet/

Sounds nice but I refuse to pay thirty bucks for a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.

this morning windows made me change my password and refused my first 4 attempts at a new one without telling me why. ended up with alternate upper and lower case with a sprinkling of digits THAT I HAD TO WRITE DOWN IN ORDER TO REMEMBER.

it's on a post-it stuck to underneath of keyboard if anyone (me) needs it...

how do people remember their passwords? literally having to reset my itunes one every time now, vicious spiral of having to think of new ones and then being unable to recall any of them

My newspaper conducts its customer service mainly online now, because they've reduced phone service to the point where no one picks up the phone. My account is password protected. That's ok, except some overzealous IT goon requires that my password contains:

1) at least eight characters, of which
2) at least one is a capital letter, and
3) at least one is a lower case letter, and
4) at least one is a numeric character, and
5) at least one is a non-alphanumeric character.

This ultra-high-security password protects me from having some Russian mafia gang stopping my newspaper when I am going to be out of town for a few days. FUCK YOU, NEWSPAPER COMPUTER GEEK ASSHAT!!!!!!!

everybody says use “passkeys” and like i’m trying but sometimes when i try to they want me to “insert a passkey device”.. what? like a usb stick? what?? or scan a qr code? with the same phone i’m using? what???? how on earth is this any better than just entering a password? really confused how this is supposed to worm

work

Hate password generators. I’ve resorted to a sheet of paper with codewords and passords

Oh I love my password keeper. No problem with it. But I cannot get my head around passkeys

Hate password generators. I’ve resorted to a sheet of paper with codewords and passwords

I use a password generator to create a 20-character password for each of my major accounts (Gmail, Amazon, various utilities, etc.) and then I keep them all on a Word document with a misleading title tucked several folders deep on my laptop.

“Crimes_ive_committed_list.doc”

Security tips or whatever it's exact name is in my Google Account had a link for Yubikey, which led me to Amazon---but this page has the company's own site, which explains how to set it up, and once you do that, can use it on any computer (at least any edition of Windows; I haven't tried on a Mac, linus etc., the company site tells whether you can do that). Yeah, once you've got it installed, just put in your password,then it prompts you to insert the key (I keep mine in home computer, haven't used it anywhere else), a little light on the key flashes, press down slightly on that spot, and that's yer second-step authentication. Mind you, Google told me about that, and I only use it there, dunno about where else it works, but the company makes other keys (and Google or Chrome also makes or did make their own, Titan, I think, but I read, on Wired, maybe years ago when I got YubiKey, that Titan wasn't then as reliable)/
Note that Wired also has a piece about reliabilty and limitations of YubiKey, here on this same page of search results:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Youbikey&oq=Youbikey&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i10i131i433i512l2j46i10i131i433i512i613l2j0i10i131i433i512i650j46i10i433i512i613j0i10i131i433i512j0i3i10j0i10i512.10944j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I also use LastPass for Google and everything else, but haven't used their password generator much, just launch from the storage vault.

of course most people w two-step just have a code sent to their phones these days---I think you can also have three-step: password, key, and code, wheee! On Google, anyway.

I have like 5 authenticator apps on my phone. The idea of having a separate physical device for 2-step authentication is loco to me.

But as I understand it, "passkeys" don't need a separate physical device? They somehow do away with the need for passwords althogether?

i got a bitwarden app but have no idea what its for or how i am to use it

I'm completely reliant on Google password manager, what could possibly go wrong.