Yesterday, I was logged into my bank account through internet. First time, I was asked to enter my Customer ID and password. Later, I was prompted to enter my second password, this one for validating the transaction. That gave me the food for thought.
Have you ever thought, how many passwords one needs to remember now a days? If you want to check your e-mail, there is a password and in case you have multiple e-mail accounts, so multiple passwords too. As mentioned internet banking requires password. You ATM card will have a PIN number, another password. Same is the situation if you want to get an airline or railway reservation through internet. Forget all these, in the morning when you reach your office and start your office computer, which will also ask for a password!
Imagine how to remember so many of them. You can’t have one password for all the transactions as one mistake and you have everything on stake. And if you forget one, definitely some problems for you.
I discussed this problem with one of my friends who agreed with my point of view. He found solution to this problem and prepared an excel file. He wrote all his transaction IDs and passwords in this file. Off course, since this was one of the sensitive files so he decided to make this file password protected.
You will not believe. He called me yesterday to tell that he is not able to remember the password for that excel file!!!
So, how many passwords do you have?
Have you ever thought, how many passwords one needs to remember now a days? If you want to check your e-mail, there is a password and in case you have multiple e-mail accounts, so multiple passwords too. As mentioned internet banking requires password. You ATM card will have a PIN number, another password. Same is the situation if you want to get an airline or railway reservation through internet. Forget all these, in the morning when you reach your office and start your office computer, which will also ask for a password!
Imagine how to remember so many of them. You can’t have one password for all the transactions as one mistake and you have everything on stake. And if you forget one, definitely some problems for you.
I discussed this problem with one of my friends who agreed with my point of view. He found solution to this problem and prepared an excel file. He wrote all his transaction IDs and passwords in this file. Off course, since this was one of the sensitive files so he decided to make this file password protected.
You will not believe. He called me yesterday to tell that he is not able to remember the password for that excel file!!!
So, how many passwords do you have?
1 comment:
Very well said... "Dont pass this word"
Passwords are like those security dogs who are kept for our security, but can bite us or our people if they dont identify us...
About remembering password, i generally go for this logic.
There are two kinds of passes (password gives us passes) one where we get reading access, and second where we get reading and writing password. Now if i want to know my exam result in university web, my roll no. acts as password , which although is not in my control to edit, but it can be made public to my people. "My People" , for these domains, i keep a generalized pass. say for some subscription to some tech. mails or even for seeing my bank`s details. cos there i cant edit anything.
for other zones, password can be generalized. (not same). the best combo is 4 letters of some same initials, other 4 of that web, other 4 numbers of state or location u r living.
12 letters with mix of alphabets and numbers gives u fair security also jumbling them in way u can think will make it more secure.
I remember in autobiography of Mr.Richard Fenyman, where is guesses password of a mathematician as 01123, in his playful search for a safes crack (as 01123... = Fibonacci number)
well like in finance higher the risk, higher gain, so i feel abt life... (and abt passwords)
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