How many passwords do you have in your life?

[qwlauren35]

Not asking how many are in your brain vs. in the cloud, vs. some software app vs. on a scribbled piece of paper.

Just wondering how many in general.

I think I have 40. Maybe more.

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	Less than 10.
	4 (11%)
	10 - 20
	6 (17%)
	20-40
	2 (6%)
	40-50
	12 (34%)
	50-70
	2 (6%)
	70-100
	1 (3%)
	More than 100
	8 (23%)
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[underpants]

1. Well over 100

I have a spreadsheet that I keep updated when I have to change a password like at work. It’s got two password protects on it.

121 lines but there are some blank lines and I keep a history of former passwords for certain sites/software/etc.

[KarenS]

3. us too,,,,,

My Husband & I have 177 entries in an excel spreadsheet,,,, signons, passwords, special questions,,,, jeez,,,,
and this has been recently updated and old stuff deleted,,,, way too many for us old folks

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. Same here.

Roughly 200 line items, but only really use about 20. I keep it in my Google cloud, so I can access on my PC/laptop/phone.

[Jerry2144]

2. Way too many

There has to be a better way

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Way too many. I can't answer an email without being...

asked for at least one.

[lastlib]

5. Four pages worth........

database file with an innocuous name that nobody would want to look into.....

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. I call it "Recipe database"

figuring "Password Database" might be too obvious for hackers.

[Fla Dem]

8. Have less than 10 unique passwords, but probably more than 70 websites that require a password.

[Jeebo]

9. I'm not going to try to count them, but ...

... I wish all the web sites/banks/e-mails/etc. would get together and standardize the rules for which characters and how many are required for passwords. Every time I have to come up with a password, I try to use the same one I have for other accounts, but quickly find out that is impossible because the rules for one password are different for the next one. The number of characters, whether they have to be alphanumeric or upper/lower case, whether they require special characters and which special characters are included in their list, etc. So every password I have to come up with has to be different, which means I have a gazillion different passwords I have to remember, which means every time I try to get into that web site or e-mail account or bank account or whatever, I can't remember the password and then I have to hit the "Forgot password?" button and open up that e-mail they send you to reset your password and make up a new one. And then they won't accept my new password because it is the same one or a recent one and one of their rules is that it can't be the same as one of your last 10, or because it doesn't follow their rules and I have a hard time figuring out why, or because my new password is one character too few and I have to add one character that's going to make it impossible for me to remember that password later, or because ... well, whatever. The result of all this is that sometimes I scream and pull my hair out by the roots and there have even been times when I was not able to get logged in and finally just gave up.

These exasperating problems could be solved if they would all get together and standardize the rules for making up your password. Then people could have the same password for everything and nobody would have to go nuts trying to get past password walls.

I could go on venting my spleen about this, but I think I've made my point.

-- Ron

[qwlauren35]

10. Congrats

to those of you with less than 10. I don't know how you do it.