Are you suffering from password pressure?

Are you suffering from password pressure?

MyPetCatsName no longer cuts it, especially if you use kitty’s name as a password for all the applications and services you access.

The password pressure of modern life means that 61% of us use the same password wherever we can, according to a survey commissioned by digital communications agency @www. In fact, with more than one in 10 people having 50 or more separate online accounts to log into, many are not only using the same password for everything, but also writing all their passwords down in one handy place, such as the noticeboard in their office, a document on their desktop, or a Post-it note stuck to their computer.

Not exactly a secure arrangement now is it? I’ve mentioned passwords in the past, and referenced a post made by Eric Meyer who suggested a useful method of creating passwords based on two key words.

I find I can use several “keyword” combinations and create numerous passwords as a result. Inserting “special characters”, and numbers, to make passwords more difficult to crack becomes a lot easier to recall once you have the key words memorised.

And it’s still fine to record your passwords on paper, just so long as you keep them locked away. As Anna Pickard says that’s far safer than using an online repository, or your computer even, to store passwords.