Pickles by Brian Crane for December 16, 2019

Look at the note taped on the side of the desktop, Opal.

I used to spend a lot of time thinking about making memorable, distinct passwords that would be difficult to crack. Now I have just one of those, which is for my password manager. Of course, when I have to get the TV talking to the WiFi, the password which is now long and very much un‍memorable is hell to enter, using the ridiculous keyboard that requires you to scroll around for each character. And, oh, by the way, has no way to display what you actually entered. (Sigh).

They should have passwords stored someplace. They are old enough to have been using computers for 25 years now. I don’t know what Earl used to do for a living.

The WiFi password is “whatisthewifipassword”. No spaces, all lowercase.

Just last week Go asked for my password and I could not recall what it might have been. I wrote all my passwords on a 4×6 card and I couldn’t find that. I gave up and made up a new one.

They say don’t write your passwords down, but I absolutely have to. There is no way I’d remember all those passwords.

I’m with Earl. With each passing year, my Random Access Memory becomes far more random and far less access.

Opal…seriously….you’re asking for Earl’s help in remembering something?

drowssap

I bet Earl’s brain is filled with pudding.

The brain has how many storage units?? And the nanobytes of (non)info that kept in there for no logical reason. . .am listening to a series of lectures from The Great Courses titled Brain Myths". . .exceptionally interesting . . .have to listen to each one a couple of times because of the terminology, but really interesting stuff. . .

Unfortunately, I have a small book with ALL my passwords …what a PITA! I don’t remember a lot of them…..

Like Earl, I have a great memory. Only its short.

I forget to use my memory sometimes!

Use a password manager like LastPass. It makes using and creating passwords very easy.

My WiFi password is (deliberately) not in my list of passwords on my computer. I wrote it down and hid it somewhere in the house

Now, I just have to remember where I hid it…

We have a RecZone Password Safe (available on Amazon). It is a small device that stores the website (or device name), user name, password and any notes you may want to make for hundreds of different sites and devices. It is password protected, which makes it the only one you have to remember. It is not connected to the computer in any way, so cannot be hacked and has a flash drive type of memory so it won’t lose any data when the batteries go dead. It has been reliable for several years now and we love it. It is much more secure than writing things down, either on paper or in a Word or Excel document.

tain’t funny McGee. Should date myself with this. All the way back to the “Golden Age of Radio”

Earl and I are a lot alike and my guess is the answer to who is Alice B. Toklas?

PASSWORD#2000000000000x

Try using pass phrases instead.

I go low tech for remembering passwords. I write them down in a place only I know about. I would never store passwords on my computer for 2 reasons. One is that they might be hacked, and the other that the computer would die and the file become unretrievable.

OMG this is so funny reminds me of us. However, not for passwords as we use Roboform and have for years…greatest program ever but for many other things in our case.

I can’t believe he can’t remember the right words to describe his…whatchamacallit.

I have a fantastic memory. It is the retrieval system that is fading.

It looks like he has perfected his WOM device (Write Only Memory).

This is why you’re supposed to write your wifi password on a piece of cardboard and tape it to the wall.