Sunday, January 31, 2010

$@#%%!* Passwords

If I am required to remember one more password for something I think I will loose my mind!  I understand the reasoning to keep our data safe, but come on give me a break in picking the password.  They all want something different; uppercase and lowercase, special characters, no special characters, numbers, no numbers, length has to be so long....what in the world!

I like to think of myself as a pretty sharp cookie, but when trying to log-on to my car insurance website I used up my three attempts and was blocked from the system and needed to call the next day...what a pain.  I had the right password, just forgot to make one letter a capital.  ARGH......

I told my husband somebody needs to make a book espically for all your website passwords and log-in names so you can keep track of all of them and not have to remember all the little differences and get locked out of your accounts.  Ok, so maybe this is not really a good idea to have this information around for anyone to have access to, but there has to be something to keep this info sorted out in.

Maybe it's just me, but if anybody else has issues with remembering passwords and has come up with a solution please let me know.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Michelle,

    I feel your pain. You should check out Mitto ( http://mitto.com/pass-it-on). It's a free, secure, and easy to use online password manager that not only lets you store the passwords to your accounts, but also helps you to automatically log in to all of your sites with the click of a button. It has third party security (McAfee) and Privacy (TRUSTe) certifications, and people are saying great things about it.

    http://mitto.com/reviews
    http://mitto.com/testimonials

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  2. Hey Brian thanks so much for the great information. I am going to check it out!

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