June 3rd is reset all your passwords day :D

[Locut0s]

Despite being a nerd and being into IT for a long time I've been somewhat lazy with my passwords. Not "password" lazy but not good enough IMO. I had a 3 tier system I used one low strength password for most of my logins and sites, a medium strength one for some other stuff, and one or two strong ones for my banking and the like. But I never bothered to change them. Recently I got a message that my Facebook and Hotmail accounts seemed to have been hacked to I decided, ok time to change passwords. I'm now going to be using KeePass Password Safe:

http://keepass.info/

to save all my passwords and a lot of other stuff in a strong encrypted file. I've actually been using this for a while and it's really good, just haven't been using it enough. Then I'll use super strong passwords for most things and copy the passwords from the encrypted database when I need to use them. I recommend others do something similar if they are worried about security. Just make sure you choose a strong main password for the keeypass login, something you can remember of course. This uses 256bit AES encryption so it's all but hack proof, assuming you use a strong password.

Only thing now is that I won't be able to memorize these passwords. Try memorizing these suckers:

N3bc"tYUNQ.!$sqz

[Shadowflash]

1. Cool!

Only 11 more months to go!

[Locut0s]

2. Hah lol, caught me. May, June what's the difference?

[PuffedMica]

3. This year I'm going to use 123456O

Nobody will ever guess I put the capitol letter O at the end.

[Locut0s]

4. Here's a good mnemonic for generating strong passwords that you can remember...

I came across this on the net one day.

1) memorize a small string of random characters like: @"&*! (the more symbols and junk the better)

2) use the URL of the site in your password. So for Microsoft take microsoft remove the www and .com

3) take the URL from 2 and exchange the first and last letters. So we now have ticrosofm

4) append #1 at the end of this string. So we now have ticrosofm@"&*!

This is a very strong password yet it's easy to remember because all you really have to memorize is #1 and the rest comes from the URL itself, and this is different for every single site.

[Pholus]

5. 1-2-3-4-5? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!

Look, it's close enough!

[cemaphonic]

6. Keepass is great

It also lets you copy-paste your stored password/login id so you don't need to type them in or remember them (giving you a bit of added protection against keyloggers as well.) I get really irritated now when I use a website that has a non-standard login UI that won't talk to the clipboard.

[Locut0s]

7. Lol indeed I know exacly what you mean...

They disable to right click menu or disable pasting. Often you can get around this by just typing Ctl-V but not always.

[whistler162]

8. And today June 4th is call your system admin

So they can reset your passwords when you forgot the new one day, or more simply piss the system admin off day(okay that is most days that end in y).