To ask how you remember your passwords?

I'm lazy and use the same thing for everything 😃

I keep them all in a word doc on my laptop. And back that up, when I remember, to a memory stick, along with photos and all other dics. Of course when the last laptop died and I needed a password this didn't do much good, because. . . nothing to put the memory stick into to read it (duh). Now I email the doc to myself every so often so I could open it on my phone.

Google password manager in Chrome. All I need to do is sign in to chrome whatever device I'm on and all the passwords appear. They're all unique, long and strong and I don't need to remember anything other than my main account password.

another vote for last pass, have a personal account and a work account but it operates them as one.

I use a password manager, but sometimes it doesn’t work. Even passwords it has been providing consistently, I swear they just disappear.

I use a rough formula for how I derive my passwords. The problem is that sites have different rules plus often make you change your password so the formula doesn’t always work.

I’ve started to put them in a book I keep hidden. Analog was the only real solution.

Has a burgler in the Uk ever done this?

@lightand Yes, they have. But hey you do you. It's an unnecessary risk to take IMO.

i pay for roboform
laptop and phone

im a online comper and can do hundreds per day so this is great

usually write them down, or sometimes the system saves them automatically.

I work in finance and have over 200 passwords, both personal and professional, so it's impossible to remember them all.

I use the Apple device function, and have a backup copy in an encrypted folder.

I keep meaning to provide a copy of them to a close relative in case I die suddenly (I'm a single parent, and they would also be my executor and DC guardian) but I haven't worked out a secure enough way to do it. Grateful for any suggestions.

I use Bitwarden, moved over to it from last pass years ago and very happy with it.

I have a system. All passwords follow the same pattern if you know the system but they are all different because of the system. A bit like the Woolworths example above. I occasionally come a cropper when an organisation has very specific rules about password structure that doesn’t fit my system. I either don’t use the organisation or get a reset every time if I have no choice.

I don't bother saving my bank details that way I can share simple passwords across accounts burgers don't get my account details they just get my mumsnet angst or my argos wish list

I use the company name and its purpose/ what I do or buy there along with one of three groups of numbers , if its a physical place , part of its post code, if it's a on line account part of my account number , or part over my childhood phone number.
I tend to have to see what I am writing in the password box tho and not all websites allow that.

So if woolworths was still around I'd use

W o o l w o r t h s
R e c o r d s
3 1 k

Wroeoclowrortsh3s1k

If both words are long I stop when I have got to 8 characters. So in this case I'd stop at the 3rd O .

There is also something else I do which I am not going to post on here 🤫

Use a password manager.

If you won't do that, base the password on something you already know, like a song lyric, and use the first character of each word.

Ha, quite!

And let's all lists the apps we use too, so they know which ones to try and hack first!

Notepad file on the laptop with every log in and password.

https://passwords.google.com/ it suggests strong passwords to use too

It is important to use unique passwords and passphrases for each of your accounts to protect your accounts from cyber attacks like credential stuffing. Cyber criminals take advantage of the fact that many users reuse their credentials across various platforms

I use two words for my passwords. I change the use of capitals and the letters to numbers, so 1 for the l, 5 for the s etc. One of them was my log on word, for my work computer twenty four years ago. My youngest DD uses three passwords and mixes them up, as I do. We go between, ! and % for special characters. It's easy to remember if you use words that mean something, or a favorite holiday/film/video game etc.

I use Bitwarden. One password to get in and I don't have to remember the rest. I like it because you can copy and paste passwords or make them visible if you need to give it to someone. Phones lose them, or I need it on my laptop and it's saved in my phone etc.

When this happens you should be able to go into your phones password manager and find the password manually.

On an iPhone it’s via ‘Settings’ - choose Passwords and you can then search through for the relevant website and copy the password with a tap. You can even usually get there straight from a website if you have the autocomplete bar on the keyboard, there will be a little key icon to click.

Not sure what the equivalent is in Android but it’ll be there!

Yes, let’s all share the secret protocols we use to remember, to assist fraudsters and hackers with ideas! E.g ‘I use the name of my primary school followed by the length of my hair in Cms’

The really important ones are in mine and DH heads, there is a specific pattern to them and also a number sequence. I watched a murder on tv and the murderer just used the persons dead face to open their phone. I can still remember phone numbers that I haven’t called for decades though and all my old passwords for work.

i use a lap top that i can look up passwords in the settings if necessary
otherwise Forgotten Password button is often pressed

But then this happens...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4396831.stm

😱

I use a password manager, so much easier as then I only need to remember the master password.