Some unfortunate events recently to family involving online fraud has triggered me to start changing all my passwords more frequently).
I know the first and most effective logic of choosing passwords is to avoid: actual words, dates, and short strings. Obviously, expanding the number of combinations is the most fool proof (upper and lower case, numerical, alpha, punctuation, and random). But it gets to a point where one has to actually carry a hardcopy list of passwords and keep updating it constantly, which I think poses a greater risk by losing that list and/or/along_with a portable device. Plus keying in passwords while reading the list, changing case and pecking around for punctuation etc is lame. I noticed that I tend to favor some keys and combinations even when I attempt to make them random.
What are y'all thoughts about passwords?
I know the first and most effective logic of choosing passwords is to avoid: actual words, dates, and short strings. Obviously, expanding the number of combinations is the most fool proof (upper and lower case, numerical, alpha, punctuation, and random). But it gets to a point where one has to actually carry a hardcopy list of passwords and keep updating it constantly, which I think poses a greater risk by losing that list and/or/along_with a portable device. Plus keying in passwords while reading the list, changing case and pecking around for punctuation etc is lame. I noticed that I tend to favor some keys and combinations even when I attempt to make them random.
What are y'all thoughts about passwords?