<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7091" dir="ltr">I totally understand the need to have different passwords for different accounts. I also seem to have a limit on the number of brain cells for this.</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7118" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7138" dir="ltr">What I have been doing is to take the name of a bank, for example, and mess around with capitalization and number substitution. Each of the several banks then has a unique password. If a computer got the password for one bank, it would only work at that bank. However, if I wrote down the password, I am sure that anyone on this list could make a correct guess for a different bank. </div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7151" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7185" dir="ltr">I am sure this is a lot better than using 1234 for everything. </div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7186" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7187" dir="ltr">BTW, my user name is also deliberately not consistent across different websites, but I only think of this as weak protection.</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7188" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7261" dir="ltr">Side issue: I recently had to jump through some security hoops when calling a credit card company. I was the one initiating the conversation. They insisted that I had to have the answer to a security question. I was told it began with "B", but my mind went blank. In hindsight, the answer had been so obvious when I had first created it, that I hadn't recorded it in my offline password base ... I was simultaneously frustrated and apologetic because I knew that they needed to be cautious. Eventually they called me back on a number in their records. ... </div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7266" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7267" dir="ltr">Then they said I needed to set up a new question / answer. "What is your favorite place to vacation?" I already knew they could prompt with the first letter of the answer. If the answer was,"Hawaii", how easy would it be to guess the answer given "H"? So I was on the line for a while longer until I found something less obvious.<br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7346" style="display: block;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7345" style="font-family: lucida console, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7344" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7343" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7342" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1490889290241_7341"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> conspire@linuxmafia.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 29, 2017 9:19 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [conspire] storing passwords<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:04:54 +0000, Paul Zander wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">> Here is a DIY project for managing passwords. It's a USB dongle that<br></div><div dir="ltr">> can save the passwords and upload them to the PC.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> Not a complete air gap, but you don't have to type the string.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <a href="https://www.instructables.com/id/Password-Manager-Typer-Macro-Payload-" target="_blank">https://www.instructables.com/id/Password-Manager-Typer-Macro-Payload-</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">All-in-ONE/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Of special note are the comments on the page by ia42 and by SuperSonik, <br></div><div dir="ltr">and the comment by robertbu is also interesting.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">conspire mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>