To be fed up of passwords for everything in life?

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I am so sick of passwords/passcodes for everything in every day life. We are told we should have different, super strong passwords for every single thing.
Want to access your banking, mortgage, pension, insurance, supermarket loyalty scheme, hairdresser booking app, school app, kids club app? Then each of those should have their own unique random password. Something like P2d3&r#K@0 is often the suggested one. How are we supposed to remember each one?
I know my iPhone has a passkey thingy to remember them, but what if my phone gets lost or stolen? Apparently those are the first things they look to target, and if they get in to one of the accounts then they change the verification email addresses and it can lock you out of everything. Apparently it can take months to sort out. It’s so depressing.
This is triggered by recently being abroad and someone tried to hack my Revolut account. I had to block access and transfer my money to another account.
I believe you wouldn’t be covered by insurance if you wrote them down in a notebook and that was discovered by robbers and they could then access your stuff.
Does anyone else miss the simple days when you were not fighting off criminal masterminds daily?

Oh god absolutely agree. Added to it, young teens added to my accounts to access everything, constantly fear I'm being robbed online. I miss the old days, when I just had to keep my bag tightly clutched in my arm pit. All my passwords follow a theme, if you hacked me once you'd figure them all out.

If your password is strong enough you can make two separate passwords to use for several social media accounts and the other strong password for several personal accounts

Use a password manager like last pass or Bitwarden. I would be lost without Bitwarden!

We are clearly in the same age group! Yup, sparkly clutch tucked under arm and emergency £20 note tucked into our ridiculously high heels, in case we needed money to get home from a party we ended up in. Ah, those were the (social media free) day!

Surely that defeats the purpose? If they can crack one password, then they get access to either your socials - which will have a recover email. Or if they get access to your banking stuff then they can track your other stuff.

I don’t know if it’s real or an urban myth that they can use nude AI images and blackmail people that they will post it on their social media pages.

No but they can't just crack a very strong password

I totally agree. I just can't remember multiple passwords and PIN numbers. It can be a nightmare.

I have a certain set of passwords and PIN numbers that I use, which aren't written down. I simply can't remember them otherwise.

I've known a couple of places where you speak out "my voice is my password" and that does seem a good way round it.

I don't know any of my passwords! I used Lastpass for ages, then it got irritating and Google password manager got better, so I use that. I don't need to know my Google password because I have a fingerprint - and Google's got clever ways of re-establishing my identity if needed (I tested it).

I'll be fucked when somebody manages to hack Google. But, on that day, everything will be fucked so my access to Mumsnet will be the least of my worries.

Fully agree, though, OP! I send evil thoughts to cybercriminals several times a day, when a service I use suddenly wants three different authentication codes.

@Topseyt123, my sister and I sound so alike that voiceprint systems can't tell the difference ...

Do you need a password for that?

I have resorted to keeping mine written down in a little book that I keep hidden at home. These days I think it's far less likely for someone to find your passwords if stored physically than digitally.

This is the bane of my life. I hate it so much and resent the amount of time I spend on it.

I was just thinking this over the weekend as I had to re-log in to my eufy robot Hoover that apparently needs its own username/my email address, two verifications of the password and then confirmation that this is all correct via a random code generated when I check back into my email account before it will be happy I am who I say I am.

At that point, you can take the bloody thing. Absolute insanity.

I email myself the password in a cryptic clue so for example if the password was goldilocks I might email 'who's been eating my porridge' and hopefully remember it doesn't always work to be honest.

YADNBU! I also hate it when you can't buy something online without creating an account (which will then spam you with emails daily). Whatever happened to the Continue As Guest optiin?

The main issues are phishing (someone sends a link to a fake site and you use your usual password) or buying from a website that asks for an account and subsequently gets hacked or someone internally sells all the usernames and passwords.
Both happen thousands of times per day, so it really is a real threat.

I hope the clue is a bit more personal and less obvious!

I agree with your sentiment but they are needed. I use Chrome password manager. It synchs from phone to desktop and is basically stored in your chrome (Google)profile

Again it's not perfect, every option has flaws but my colleague lost £76,000 because criminals got into their Hotmail.

You can use Pa55word across all accounts if you want but expect to get hacked. They are bastards and targeting anyone they can get.

God I agree it’s tiresome

Its a very easy problem to solve. Lastpass, or any password manager does that. All my passwords are Xh!fg359 type of thing.

But what boils my piss is for something unimportant where you don't have an account with your bank account details attached they want 10+ digits and a capital and a special character....why just why

Surely that’s better than having your money and identity stolen?

All you need to do is remember your iCloud password and make sure your phone stays up to date on your account. Then you can always access your passwords stored in the keychain. You also don’t have to use the strong password option, just click ‘choose your own’.

I do this, a friend gave me it as part of a birthday present and it's been really useful.

As I'm getting older, I worry about what happens in the future, especially if I start to have memory problems, the book might help for a while as long as I remember I have it to look the passwords up in.

Just use the password storage on your phone. If it gets nicked wipe it.

Use a password manager program. 1Password or Lastpass or Bitwarden etc

also keep the important ones written down on paper at home.