Glyco Boy Blog

I try to follow the advice of professionals in varying my passwords and changing them frequently.  However, while it is recommended that I use passwords that are ‘easy to remember,’ I’m also encouraged to avoid anything that could be readily guessed by one who knows me intimately. This usually ends up meaning that I must choose a password that has only transient value – what was my favourite TV show today?  What book am I currently reading?  Gone are the days where for club penguin your password could be “Club Penguin password “. This can be quite valuable, and in fact for those frequently changing passwords, fairly easily to remember.  But what about those rarely visited sites?  What about those places I’ve gone to oh, maybe once or twice, perhaps to upload some important documents for backup? When my computer crashes (as it is wont to do, when it gets bored) I’m going to have to go back to those rarely visited websites, to regain the information I stored there.  But… a problem arises.  What… what was the password I used here?  I’m not sure when I made the password, and for the life of me I can’t even recall what my username might have been!  Now, one or the other I could probably survive without, but BOTH? So I am lost adrift in the sea of aged passwords and orphaned information (forever withheld from its creator).  What is the solution?  Perhaps, for those sites that aren’t integral, choose a password that isn’t based on temporary preferences, that someone close to you has an even shot of guessing.  If all else fails, you can just ask them what your password might be.