Mother Goose and Grimm by Mike Peters for November 20, 2024

I resemble that remark!

Sometimes a person’s greatest enemy is themselves.

That’s why I have two and a half pages of user ID’s and corresponding passwaords.

I write mine down.

Same goes for those of us with Swiss cheese brains — everything goes out but nothing comes back in!

Dark Helmet : So the combination is… one, two, three, four, five? That’s the stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life! That’s the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage! – Space Balls (1987)

For me it’s generally a part of our address and the company.(12third@gocomics, for example. (Not real password of course, we live on 4th street. :^) ) For a while my mother was living at a facility that had the name of a nut in it. I set her pw up as 12third@nuthouse.

Thank goodness my laptop remembers those, I have switched some old ones for a passphrase, easier to remember and I don’t have to write it down and when I put in the new password in the password manager asks if I want to save it. Piece of cake.

c’mon, they’re on a sticky note under the keyboard

She just gets a new password every time. My browser remembers mine, and they are protected by another password. Which wouldn’t help Ms. Goose.