Monday, February 20, 2012

Pasword Hell

It's been a VERY long time since I've blogged simply because I could not remember the password.  I have never had a great memory and I've tried to keep my life simple by using one simple password for everything.  That worked for a very long time THEN they create more rules:  msust be 8 letters long, must contain at least one symbol and one letter, blah, blah, blah.  So, when my simple password would no longer suffice, I started using my husband's clever passoword.  The challenge is remembering which password I used before it locks me out:  Password A, Password  B, Darrell's password or a recent creation. 

My passwords are also an unintentional way to make my husband crazy.  When we share an account, sometimes I forget the password and in frustration I end up creating a new password and I forget to tell him.  He then gets frustrated as he can not log into our account.  He then asks me, "Honey, did you change the password?."  Me, "Oh yeah!  I forgot to tell you."  He loves that.    Other things that I do to make my husband:  I put things away in different places.  Not on purpose but because I decide that it would be better in a new place.  Not answer his questions on my blog topic.  Trying to leave events unplanned.  Piling crap on the dining room table.  (If I think of any new ones, I will let you know.)

Back on topic--I have heard internet gurus give tips on algorithims to create an unhackable password but I can't remember those.  There are three things that make me feel really old:  wrinkles, grey hair and remembering when we didn't need passwords.

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