Computer & account passwords

[Murdoch]

I've just been updating all our BT account passwords in the wake of the disclosure by Yahoo ....... what a pain

I've lost count of all the accounts we as a family and my business have ... so keeping track of all of them is tricky to say the least (and yes I do the wives and the kids too as they are useless ATM)

Just wondering about investing in one of these packages that can "manage" passwords for you - anyone got any experience of them?

 

[Blue Duck]

How bout a locked spreadsheet?

Just don't forget the password...

I use a variation of the same random code for different things...

 

[gutterball]

I use Lastpass

works on phone pc laptop tablet.

 

[kerching]

@Canoeboy

pH2>CG#QBf8hokAUU

thanks for that!......which particular account woul you use that for  :innocent

 

[Doc Hudson]

@Canoeboy

pH2>CG#QBf8hokAUU

thanks for that!......which particular account woul you use that for  :innocent

Too late Steptoe has already used it to transfer the funds from all of Canoeboy's business accounts into his beer and motorbike fund.

Doc H. 

 

[kerching]

Too late Steptoe has already used it to transfer the funds from all of Canoeboy's business accounts into his beer and motorbike fund.

Doc H. 

Not enough for the 'adult educational art pamphlet literature' I suppose

 

[Evans Electric]

I just did the same ,  but it wouldn't recognise my existing password although I was logged  anyway ,  must have tried a million times before I remembered that it WAS BT Yahoo email once  but was changed to just BT Email  which is different , I presume .

I changed that anyway .

My passwords are in a hi-tech storage / retrieval  system  in keeping with my position as Forum IT Consultant .  :Blushing

 

[Andy™]

I've just been updating all our BT account passwords in the wake of the disclosure by Yahoo ....... what a pain

you do know that the 'hack' was in 2014? if you havent already had your bank emptied, its unlikely to happen now

 

[Evans Electric]

I have a theory that when all our lives are fully controlled by computers , hackers will bring down the whole system , leaving us all floundering round helplessly .

Youngsters will be staggering in circles like zombies, desperately poking non responding  screens  when they find they cannot text , Twitter  or  report their every bowel movement on Facebook .