I'll spout some heresy. I think it is a good idea to write
many of your passwords down. But you need to strongly protect
the place where you have them written down. For example,
keep them in your wallet, written in code that looks like
a list of phone numbers, possibly just encoding the hint
that lets you remember the password.
I think this is a good idea because I think you should do
all of the following:
- Never use the same password/PIN twice (for two
different systems).
- Never use a password that someone could guess after
they get to know you or "research" you.
- Change your passwords regularly.
and if I do all of those, how am I ever going to remember
the 47 passwords/PINs that each has nothing to do with
my personal life, the account being accessed, or each other
while forgetting the completely different set of passwords
I so painstakingly memorized last month?
Now, the password to my top-secret security clearance
account at the Air Force, that one I'd just memorize!
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tye
(but my friends call me "Tye")
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One thing that I used to, I have hence changed it now was to take a two digit number and then the name of someone that I did not know, and then a 3 digit number. I followed the pattern for 6 months and then changed it.
One of my friends had these huge super-detailed maps of the Czech Republic and Poland and Hungary and he would pick the name of these small 100 person villages and change two letters in the name. That was always obscure. Fun stuff though.
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