Passwords

Now that you are starting to use all these new and exciting e-tools, you may find it hard to keep track of all your passwords. I have a strategy that might work for you. Of course I won’t tell you my specific strategy or you will know all my passwords… not that I don’t trust you :-)

My Password Strategy

I take a few of letters from the website and then add some consistent numbers.
For example, I might use the 1st 3 letters of the name of web site with the 1st 4 digits of an old employee number:

  • for delicious -> del1780
  • for google docs -> goo1780
  • for pbworks -> pbw1780

The numbers usually have some significance to me so I will remember like:

  • my house number
  • an old student number
  • an old employee number
  • part of my phone number
  • my extension at work

The result is a different password for each web site and it is easy to remember.

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