argh

[dragonlady7]

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i’ve forgotten my dreamwidth password, firefox saved the wrong thing and my password managers all disagree.

i need to go through, collect the passwords out of all my fucking caches and keychains and everything, and then

write them down on a piece of fucking paper

and then delete all of them from the autofills because they’re wrong half the fucking time

i can still crosspost but i can’t read and i can’t respond to comments so i’m sorry, DW friends, i see you but i can’t answer you until i resolve this.

i fucking hate password managers and i fucking hate how every fucking site has different password requirements (FUCK YOU and your needs a capital letter bullshit) and i swear to fucking Christ, I’m just going to laminate a card with them all written down and paste it inside my laptop, I am DONE with this FUCKING BULLSHIT. (Your picture was not posted)

Comments

[unicornduke]

I literally keep a word document of passwords. It is password locked but that one is memorized and written down in a journal. The document lives in my Dropbox so I have it on my phone as well. And I update it every time I update a password and it's tedious but has also saved my butt

[galadhir]

Oh I completely feel you on this! I recently bought a paper address book because my computer no longer supports the software I kept all my addresses in and a glitch lost all of them. Low tech stuff just works all the time whereas passwords keep needing to be updated, and you forget them over different devices, and autofills are never right and every so often they seem to reset them for no reason. I already have a book with my important passwords written on paper, but I agree that even the unimportant ones would be safer that way

[frith]

I like the (paper) address book idea. Organizes everything in alphabetical order.

[harpers_child]

I've got an address book from the dollar store. It has Winnie the Pooh on it. I memorized a base. The passwords in the book are all entered as base.word so that the various sites I'm on all have different passwords. I do have firefox remember my passwords for everything except banking stuff.

[frith]

Thank you. This helps confirm my lack of confidence in these lauded password managers that I keep seeing as The Solution to having passwords, passwords everywhere. My problem with password managers stems from making an electronic list of passwords in a dedicated program. It's an obvious target that could get "hacked". I seem to recall that program managers also generate passwords, effectively taking me out of the equation in this security theater. I much rather have the keys to my internet venues in my head, or barring that, on paper. I also take screen-grabs of the log-in screen when subscribing. I then modify it with the username, password and answers to the security questions, just in case.

[krait]

Oh, no! I hope you can sort them out.

(I sometimes feel very ancient when I write yet another password down in a notebook I keep in the side table, but on the other hand I also feel like it's probably more secure than newer methods at this point.)

Also 1000% agree on the stupid and pointless nature of arbitrary password requirements!! D:< Surely we're well aware by now that making me stick an exclamation point at the end of my password does nothing to make it more secure.

XKCD being, as always, topical: Password Strength