Passwords - how do you manage them all?

HangTime said:
Just a piece of advice for those of you that have passwords written down, what I recommend doing is adding some characters either side, so if anyone else gets hold of it, they probably won't be able to get the actual password anyway, whereas it will jog your memory and you will figure out which characters to discard. PIN numbers in particular should never be written down in plain text, as a 4 digit number stands out like a sore thumb - if you really must write it down, disguise it as a phone number or similar.
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I do something similar to this when I have to store a new pin in my phone, or online banking logins.
 
We've all had new laptops at the NHS which when turning on needs a password and you only get 5 attempts before the laptop blows up (I think).
It then loads into windows where you put your username/password.
Both my bosses have got their boot password and username/password written on the inside of the laptop.
 
I saw an animated GIF a while back showing how easy it is to bypass a Win98 password. Not sure if I'll get in trouble for posting it on here though... even though few people actually use that OS any more. Was hilariously simple.

Oh, and my passwords are all jumbled letters/numbers ! Don't mean anything to anyone.
 
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It's incredibly easily to obtain windows xp passwords as well. XP uses the crappy LM hash which can be broken in seconds for passwords upto 14 chars long by using a rainbow table. So any network using xp's standard hash is vunerable to all sorts of problems.
 
Über sensitive passwords like for Betfair or my 12-digit number / 5-digit passphrase for online banking are managed by Grey Matter 1.0

Everything else is deemed of lesser sensitivity and is stored on a notepad, which lives in a safe.
 
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