How do you manage passwords?

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I must admit I'm guilty of using the same few passwords for everything.
There must be maybe 100 things in my life that need passwords, and I really should up the security I know.
I presently have a little book but there must be a better way?

My password manager requires face ID or touch ID to unlock. If neither are available I have to type in my master password which is stored in my head and nowhere else.

Doesn't the phone self wipe after 10 goes at the pin anyway.

For them that use Apps are you not worried about what happens if the device you store them in is stolen.

No because it requires Face ID to access them.

The phone pin isn't much protection, so someone just needs to get into the password manager, which I assume is an app on the phone.
They would still need the master password, even if they got past the pin was my point. Having access to the phone if they got past the pin, wouldn't help them without the masterpassword.

Logins & passwords are the absolute bane of modern life. Techies are obsessed with forcing us to use ever longer & more complex passwords for ‘security’ reasons which are ever more of a PITA to organise and remember.

Modern technology is amazing in many ways, so why can’t the tech industry come up with better, smarter, more convenient verification methods than bloody passwords?

I use ‘1 password’ app and desktop app. Share it with DH - means that we can share the logins for stuff, and just have one school account etc.

Took me a loooong time to get into using it but it’s a game changer.

Lasspass or keeper
Both are good.

I marginally prefer keeper.

I use Firefox as my browser and then use its inbuilt password manager and password generator. So I just have to remember my master password and the password for anything I want to access on my phone. So my MN password is a human-memorable password as I use it on my phone and laptop, but my passwords for shops are not.

Keychain on my phone.

I use a phrase which also incorporates the initials of the website name, so each password is unique.

e.g. I love to go to school at 8 Mumsnet!

becomes

Il2g2s@8MN!

I just write them all in a book

The only ones I can actually remember are for my online banking and credit card. Everything else, I just request a reset every time I need to use one. And check out as guest wherever possible. I don’t trust password apps, they’re a single point of failure and what happens if you forget how to get into the password app, or your phone gets stolen?

@Boood

The only ones I can actually remember are for my online banking and credit card. Everything else, I just request a reset every time I need to use one. And check out as guest wherever possible. I don’t trust password apps, they’re a single point of failure and what happens if you forget how to get into the password app, or your phone gets stolen?

I use Keeper, it uses Face ID, so I can't forget how to get into it, but anyone else would need the master password. And it syncs between my iPhone & iPad, so I'd have to lose both. Most sites I visit use Face ID anyway to log in.

I use the Apple one as it is across all devices and I use it on my iMac as well, not sure I would want an app.

I use categories but do the same number at the end.

So say it was months and my number was 739

I'd do may729

January729... not in that exact month though of course

When I've exhausted those I go on to another category, be it vegetables or whatever

Turnip729.

I haven't done months or vegetables those are just examples but you get the gist. It's easy to remember for yourself then, if it's not one vegetable it must have been last months or the month befores vegetable!

@Flammkuchen your method is great!

I use the first letter of the words in a song, - I do like to be beside the sea side... idltbbtss then add a significant number. I don't use the same song each time.

My Apple devices save them all, so does the chrome browser on my work laptop.

I use a password manager. LastPass or 1Password - both are good.

Last pass or keypads.

If you must make up your own passwords then either a combination of 3 random words eg

Tarpaulin-sofa-green

Or the first letters of a sentence in a favourite song, with a mix of characters.

Eg - I'm forever blowing bubbles pretty bubbles in the air, would become

1FB6Pb!Ta

I did a course on this. One of the safest is three unrelated words and some punctuation

Example

Donkeyfingercartwheel!20

Apparently they take forever to crack.

I have the same password for everything, I change it every 3 months. I use 3 x 3 letter words followed by a 2 digit number and punctuation mark

BumWetCar23!
DotHotGit98&
PutSitDog08+

Makes it very hard to guess.

Lastpass here as well, would never remember them otherwise!

I use 3 different passwords and just have to guess what one is for which site!

Dh has a fail safe method , for example, he uses the name of the site and the same 4 digit code after it eg paypal1001, mumsnet1001, ebay1001. He says that’s easier.

Words chosen from random pages of German-English dictionary + significant number + punctuation.

I keep track of them all in a little notebook which is falling apart.