Poll of the Day > How do you remember your passwords?

(+) Yeah! (+)

I'm always forgetting passwords on accounts that I don't use regularly. I really need to come up with a good method of remembering them.

Nice try NSA.

I store them in my muscle memory.
---

With my brain.
---

easy enough, i got it from President Skroob (Spaceballs).
---

Flash drive surgically implanted into my penis
---

Snuggletoof posted...

How do you remember your passwords?

From memory save for the odd site that I haven't used in a while. Sometimes chrome will remember those password for me though where as others I just rest the password.
---

Why do you quote the topic title? Nothing against it, just seems weird and unnecessary.

Excellent memory and I use patterns.
---

aHappySacka posted...

With my brain.

Snuggletoof posted...

Why do you quote the topic title? Nothing against it, just seems weird and unnecessary.

I quote what I'm responding to as that what the quoting system is for unless I'm just using the same response as another poster. I'm not sure what's weird about that and it's absolutely necessary unlike your bitching about things I do when I didn't even recognise you as a poster around here until recently.
---

wwinterj25 posted...

bitching about things I do when I didn't even recognise you as a poster around here until recently.

Woah, where the fuck did that come from?

I just thought it was weird as it's just assumed a non-quoted post is in response to the topic title.

Most of my passwords are the same, but it is usually a 100 character string, so kind of hard for people to remember or for sites to crack.

I also use 2-step authentication for anything that stores my credit card or purchases.
---

I remember them.
---

Snuggletoof posted...

wwinterj25 posted...

bitching about things I do when I didn't even recognise you as a poster around here until recently.

Woah, where the fuck did that come from?

I just thought it was weird as it's just assumed a non-quoted post is in response to the topic title.

wwinterj25 is a weird dude though.

I set my passwords to "0001" because I’m number one!
---

Nope. Got a new phone yesterday and for some reason my passwords weren't saved in the cloud.
---

SkynyrdRocker posted...

wwinterj25 is a weird dude though.

---

SkynyrdRocker posted...

wwinterj25 is a weird dude though.

Sometimes.

But aren't we all?

Snuggletoof posted...

SkynyrdRocker posted...

wwinterj25 is a weird dude though.

Sometimes.

But aren't we all?

true

Checking my email address and putting a new one in after the cookie expires

Can't hack a piece of paper.

The hard part isn't remembering several passwords. The hard part is remembering which of those passwords goes with which site -_-
---

I write them all on my hands and arms.... It can get a little messy <_<
---

ToastyPOP posted...

I write them all on my hands and arms.... It can get a little messy <_<

Like in Number 23?
---

I have a Google Sheets file that has a list of all of my username and password hints and which sites they belong to. All of my passwords appear to be random character/symbol/number strings with case sensitivity. All of them are acronyms, and they are formed from phrases I made up that are unique but easy for me to remember.

For example (not one of my passwords):
ihaHRwiw12
I hit a home run when I was 12

The Google Sheets file only contains hints, but they are virtually meaningless to anyone but me. But I have over 40 logins stored on there and it's really convenient because I can access it from both my phone and any PC, so I can always reference it when I need to and whenever I make a new login it's easy to store it right away. It's worked out really well for me so far.
---

I just use the same password for everything, easy enough.
---

Sure! It's the price of a cheese pizza and a large soda back where I used to work, Panucci's Pizza.
---

I write them down in hard copy, then keep it under lock and key.

I generally don't

clicks forgot password link
---

I'm pretty good at remembering my passwords. But sometimes I do have massive brain farts where I can't remember them at all.. or I remember an old one or something. That's why I write them down too.
---

It's a mix of all of the options. I have a ton of accounts and, for some less important ones, I might reuse passwords. In other cases I record them somewhere. A few of my most important ones I really just trust to memory. The real issue is when I have to change a memorized password because then I'm really lost. Yahoo made me change the password of on my backup email addresses that I've had since maybe 1999 or 2000 and trying to get used to the new pass is a pain.

And, of course, there are a lot of passwords I've forgotten. Many of those are things I'll never recover because I can't remember the associated email and, in general, they aren't particularly important.
---

Most of them are just off memory.
But in case I forget, I have them written down analog style and hidden somewhere in my house.

Because sometimes the odd site won't allow my normal password or style.
---

I use the same password for almost everything or something similar to it.
---

I only have a few accounts which are relevant, my 2 emails and GameFAQs.
---

Never you mind.
---

I write them down in pencil and keep them hidden from others. I also reuse the same passwords.
---

Mnemonics. I am a fanatic for the Holy Bible, so I recall the stories within from the Hebrew perspective to arrive at the combination. I have a few dozen owing to the website's request for stricter security, annoyingly, so I had to simplify it than just memorize it after I couldn't figure out which password was needed. It was manageable under a dozen, but I suppose the new method to add even more (above) has been helpful.
---

AElaias posted...

Mnemonics. I am a fanatic for the Holy Bible, so I recall the stories within from the Hebrew perspective to arrive at the combination. I have a few dozen owing to the website's request for stricter security, annoyingly, so I had to simplify it than just memorize it after I couldn't figure out which password was needed. It was manageable under a dozen, but I suppose the new method to add even more (above) has been helpful.

I guess you could say you're part of the Mnemonic Order. Amirite?
---

I memorized them.
---

Password managers are seriously the least popular option? What is wrong with you people?

WastelandCowboy posted...

Nice try NSA.

---