In the end I updated my password in five different places. When you also count the cell phone and tablet apps, I did it a total of fifteen times. The good news is that after entering new passwords so many times I've committed them to memory.
Friday, September 23, 2016
Password Pain
You may have heard that as many as 500 million Yahoo accounts had their security breached. According to the company, the stolen information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and some security questions and answers.
Because I have a Yahoo email account, today I changed the password. That involved coming up with a new strong randomized phrase that I will be able to remember. Then, because I have multiple email accounts, when I change one of them I change them all. (Each account has a similar, but different password to help me keep everything straight.) Then, in addition to the email sites themselves, there's the additional websites that are tied into one of the email accounts and need to have their passwords updated, too.
In the end I updated my password in five different places. When you also count the cell phone and tablet apps, I did it a total of fifteen times. The good news is that after entering new passwords so many times I've committed them to memory.
In the end I updated my password in five different places. When you also count the cell phone and tablet apps, I did it a total of fifteen times. The good news is that after entering new passwords so many times I've committed them to memory.
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At work, where I deal with some federal computers, I must change my password every six months, and the caveat is it must have numbers, letters, symbols and cannot be found in a dictionary, even when their algorithms change all the symbols or numbers to letters to check. I've resorted to a random pass word generator, and I store the passwords in a word document and cut and paste the appropriate password.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a REAL pain.
DeleteYour last line was funny.
ReplyDeleteSo many passwords these days. Ack.
Ack indeed :-)
DeleteHope you're having a groovy weekend.
DeleteHit the Farmer's Market today for more seconds. Big bag of jalapeno peppers for four bucks. Hot dog.
I hate changing passwords.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone like it?
DeleteI had to change all mine as well. Such a pain.
ReplyDeleteMy problem is that I've given different passwords to everything so I can't remember anything. I should come up with one like you and change everything else to the same thing.
ReplyDeleteI bet if I asked an expert, they'd tell me my method isn't the most secure, but it works for me.
DeleteYou are better than I am by far. I forget them all the time, and have been locked out of my own site accounts for trying three times. Then what do you do. I guess you create another email or try using another of your existing emails to open a new account. But then if you forget and use the same spelling of your name or anything similar, the dreaded "an account already exists for this user" phrase comes up. I have pretty darn near given up. I write the passwords on scraps of paper that then get lost or disintegrate....gosh darn.
ReplyDeleteThat DOES sound like a problem.
DeleteA couple of months I found myself in a situation where I had to change ALL of my passwords. Not a fun spot to be in. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteSilver Willow, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment! I hope I never have to change everything at once like you did. What a pain!
DeleteUgh! I got that email and I haven't done it yet. It's such a good password that I have yet to comment to memory and now I need to get another one. I better hop to it.
ReplyDeleteAlways something, isn't it?
DeleteI have a yahoo account, but I almost never use it. I should log in and update the password.
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