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I've been doing a quick tot up of numbers, user names and passwords that I have to remember and it's a really high number - add in to that phone numbers that I know off by heart and it's amazing that there's room in my brain for anything else.

Accyweb user name and password = 2
Other chat site user name and password = 2
Bank accounts - two account numbers plus online banking user names and passwords, plus cash point pin numbers = 8
Ebay - account user name and password = 2
Amazon - account user name and password = 2
Credit card pin number = 1
Security codes to get in to work = 2
Security alarm at home = 1
Important family telephone numbers = 9
Random business and friends telephone numbers that I can't get out of my brain = 12 (approx)
My own mobile number = 1
My home telephone number = 1


That's 43 pieces of information and I'm pretty sure there's more - bet other people can beat that easily but I still think it's a lot to have floating around in there.

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You're a good girl, and do what they tell you to do.

I'm lazy, and if anybody ever works out my one password/pin number my life will be in tatters.

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i know where youre coming from gayle, i'm just back on line after losing all my files etc,its a nightmare trying to remember passwords-web addresses etc,i thought i'd saved them all to a disc- it said i had @ veryified it! but the disc was blank! you may find this hard to believe but i SWORE lol:mad:

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Thats terrible cashy swearing. I gave up backing my computer to disc and bought an external hard drive for all my backups and important guff and only have it on if required. Beats pulling my hair out if this goes down.

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It would probably get stolen with the rest of your PC if you ever get broken into :(

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I'd forgotten my online signins for M&S, Tesco and Asda, so that's another set to remember.

Plus the password to get onto the network at Mid Pennine.

Have to admit that occassionally I use the same password for more than one thing but it still means I have to remember which password goes where. And with some you have to put digits in rather than letters so I use a 1 instead of an I or a 4 instead of a A - all things that add to the general mix!

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They would have to put the window in to enter. If I am going anywere for any lenghth of time they go with me. Joys of a laptop. And they go into the laptop case then into an ordinary rucker with other odds and ends. hate attracting attension with the case on its own or one of the fancy ruckers.

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My Brother-in-law worked for the L.C.C. and when they first introduced networked computers he proudly told me that his password was easy to remember and even easier to type, I said do you mean 'fred'?
Gosh he said how did you know? I told him that at the time people new to computers always looked for something simple and the most popular was 'fred'! (All the keys are next to each other).

Gosh he said I thought I was being clever.

A few weeks later he said, I've been in touch and got my password changed.

I said, is it 'derf' by any chance? He looked astonished and asked how do you know? I replied that the most popular password for people that are new to computers when they discover that 'fred' is so popular always reverse it and change their password to 'derf'!

Another popular password used to be 'Master' because that was the password used by the evil one in the Disney film 'Tron'.

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An IT bod at my old company said she could probably crack anyone's password within a few minutes of talking to them. I laughed and she said, just watch. She then turned around and said to the girl at the next desk to me, "you've got a dog, haven't you, what did you say it was called?" "Molly" was the reply - two seconds later the IT bod was in to the girl's profile!

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I really daren't tot up the number of things I have to remember....it would be much too scary. Gayle, are you also expected to remember all the birthdays....not just for your own family, but those of his family.....and friends too....? I know that I am. If anything ever happens to me my hubby will be unable to get any money from the hole in the wall so he will starve to death......and no-one will get either cards or presents.

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Yes Margaret, and we have one diary in our house - it's mine! I have to keep notes of things like his and the kids dentist appts and all our social life! I would be totally, totally lost without my diary though - I have to write that down. It's one of my 'fun' jobs between Christmas and New Year to transfer all my key dates into my new diary.

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gayle i am very good at remembering usernames and passord so please feel free to pm me your passwords etc to online banking etc for safe storage , its always a good idea to have a backup incase yu forget and i realy dont mind adding your usernames and passwords to my list :D

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You dinosaur :D Sounds like a Pocket PC should be on your Santa list this year.

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Well when birthdays and the like are chucked in then I am in a mess having enough trouble with passwords for work etc. I forget birthdays on a regular basis and dispite using post it notes still miss them. :o

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Yes, I also use post it notes but the people I give them to tell me they would rather have a card!

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Thanks for your generous offer but I'll stick to relying on my memory - it hasn't failed me yet! Not like my friend who had all her passwords in her mobile phone and had it stolen last week!

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Yep - I've tried having one of those palmtops but it's not for me. I love my diary with all it's little notes in it and doodles. So much more fun!

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ouch thats got to hurt i hope she managed to change thjem in time

mobile phones are mre like personal organisers these days yet are one of the most easily items to loose and most sought after by theives.

your better off writing usernames and passwords on a piece of paper and hiding it under the carpet than using your mobile phone

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I cheat slightly I keep mine on the works computer network. If I forget some of them which is at least everythird day I just retrieve them. Thats until I forget my works logon. :o

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How many people use an actual word as a password on the Internet, I wonder? My guess is that most people do. Well you are just asking to have it discovered and it can be done with a few seconds if the word is in a standard dictionary as was demonstrated on TV a couple of weeks back.

For all Internet passwords, for your own security you should use random characters – at least 12 or preferably 15 or even 20.

So how are you expected to remember something like QSJ2s4FNwdzPisORvv1m I hear people asking.

You can’t but the solution is simple. Use your word processor or even WordPad or NotePad and create a document that contains the name of the site, your user name and your password. Then all you have to do is copy and paste when accessing a particular site. Save the document to floppy or if you are feeling paranoid save it to TWO floppies. Just remember to update them both as you get new passwords or change your existing ones.

Better still get yourself RoboForm for FREE and let it keep all your passwords securely. Over 8 million users cannot be wrong. I have used RoboForm for some five years now, surf all over the place on a daily basis and NEVER had my passwords compromised. But then who would possibly be able to guess something like B5VrFIJ7aShW0AuRutj8? Even if some enterprising hacker wrote a script to trawl through all the possible combinations (62 to the power of 20 = approx 700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) it would take years using the IBM’s BlueGene/L at 70.72 teraflops the fastest computer on the planet. Most mortals are not in that league so it would take them hundreds of years. Hardly worth the effort.

The free version is limited to 10 passwords but the pro version for a mere $29.95 (about £17) has unlimited password storage and is the best money you will ever spend on the Internet. I’m not allowed to publish the RoboForm URL but you don’t need a degree to figure it out as a dot come site.

RoboForm doesn’t just remember your passwords but will also fill in forms with whatever details you want it to and includes a password generator for up to 512 characters. Not that you would ever want to use that many.

Windows will often ask you if you want it to remember your user name & password when you input the details for the first time. DECLINE as it is not secure.

Obviously RoboForm is of no use for access codes at work etc. but it will cut down what you have to remember and will allow you to use secure random characters rather than a 4 digits code or real word.

It works for me.