Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 27, 2021

Sounds like that one Jackson Five song.

His password is “password.” There. That’s my very old joke.

My main trouble is remembering which scrap of paper I wrote them down on.

My nightmare is St Peter at the Pearly Gates asking me for my password.

I “liked” this, but I would rather “dislike but agree with”.

Travel luggage codes also come to mind …. 1-2-3-4 … ;-)

Or your passwords are about something regarding your grandkids

Boy, can i relate to that.

Why, oh, why do you HAVE to keep reminding me of myself ??

Just when I’ve got all my pw’s settled, I’m told to add a non-alphanumeric character……&@#%!!*^

“Space” is a non-alphanumeric character, but for some reason they don’t like that one…

pet’s name + color your first car + the month of your birthday

I have so many passwords that they take up two sheets of paper. Tried using the same one for everything but some let you use only certain symbols and of course not every site accepts the same symbols, numbers or number of capital letters.

TLHFCKOCTBCR

That’s why I have a book named “Shit I can’t remember”.

Get a password locker and you will only have to remember one password.

abc123 Abc123 ABC123

Wall plastered in post-a-notes.

Been there.

For 30 years I worked for a government agency that was heavily involved with simulation studies. I had a lap top and a desk computer that were both ‘unclassified’ and was involved with projects on three different ‘classified’ systems. Each system, each project and often each section of a project had to have an 11+ character password that included a capital letter and characters (excluding space, tilde, slash, backslash, and exclamation point). Both sides of the keyboard had to be used and they could not include any recognizable word or name. Each password had to be changed every 90 days and whenever a person left one of the projects. And we were not supposed to write any of them down. At any given time, I had between 8 and 24 different passwords (they all had to be different and don’t ask my how they could tell). So now I apply the KISS principle — keep it simple, stupid — although I am careful to avoid any of the standard pitfalls (family, pet, hobby, etc. associations). When I have to create a password, I take a book I am reading at the time, close my eyes, open it, point and I pick a word or phrase from under my finger.

Especially on those websites where you only get three tries and then you’re locked out.

Most of my passwords suggest the website, “Princecharm” for the Princess website for example (and no, that’s not a real one). Once in a while the password reflects how frustrated I was coming up with one. I had a lot of fun creating them and using my password “locker” I can keep track of them.

I gave up trying to remember exclusive passwords, so newer ones all start with the same base, plus a sort of website related adder done in alpha-numerics & symbols. As I’m creating passwords they are written down in a notebook I keep on my desk. Otherwise I might forget it before logging in the next time.

Forgetting what your insecure password was does not mean your system is secure!

I wish I was joking about this, but my in-laws actually went to Walmart to buy a new keyboard because his football pool site wanted a password with “special characters” and his didn’t have any.

I recently heard a great password idea – use your childhood phone number. If you’re a plugger it will start with a combination of two letters, three numbers, a dash and then four numbers. Easy enough to remember.

I recently heard a great password idea – use your childhood phone number. If you’re a plugger it will start with a combination of two letters, a single number, a dash and then four numbers.

8 characters long and easy enough to remember.

My password is an obsure under rated comic book artist.

It’s very important to write down passwords. I found that out when I was sick for 6 weeks, including having a high fever and didn’t use my debit card. I went to an ATM and stood there helplessly because I couldn’t remember my PIN number. I had written it down at home, but it was in code, and I couldn’t remember how to decipher it! Fortunately, the situation was easy to fix with a new PIN number but it really scared me at the time. No more thinking I’ll “for sure” remember ANYTHING!

Comedian Jeff Dunham has a very funny routine about forgotten passwords. It’s also a very nice homage to Abbott & Costello’s classic routine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBOZEVWwtvI