Do you write down all your passwords?

[Ketia0 0]

After reading a thread, I couldnt help but think how important this may be.

How many of you write down you passwords to your computers, email accounts, DZ.com account, and other things in which you connect with people, in case something happens? So that a family member may go in and copy the good stuff; pictures, movies, personal stories?

I think this is a good idea, and plan on doing it today, and putting it in my safe.

Any thoughts, ideas?

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[skydiver30960 0]

Nah. If I kick the bucket, the overwhelming majority of the stuff that I do online becomes moot. I'm just not that important.

The only thing I'd worry about is the online banking. But since we still bank with a normal real-world bank, my wife could just go there with a copy of my death certificate (yikes!) and get full access to all our duckets, which I'm pretty sure she has already (the access, not the death certificate).

Elvisio "checking my coffee for Iocaine powder" Rodriguez

[skyjumpenfool 2]

Do you write down all your passwords?
No!

Birdshit & Fools Productions

"Son, only two things fall from the sky."

[Ketia0 0]

I see..

But what if you had things on the internet that the fmaily would want access to? Like your personal thoughts on life, or just how you went about everyday.

Ya know what I mean?

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[Ketia0 0]

Not yet. But i plan on doing it today.

My laptop is password protected.. but it has TONS of pictures on it that only i have copies of. Some of them scanned, some of them from my digital camera. And I know my fmaily would want that.

Plus.. They would be able to go to all my websites where people know me and tell about the tragic passing of the most awesome... ME!

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[repcool 2]

I think this way you have more chance of having your identity stolen than leaving behind useful facebook information.

[skydiverbry 0]

I just tell everyone my passwords....lots easier








Bry

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[Squeak 17]

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I see..

But what if you had things on the internet that the fmaily would want access to? Like your personal thoughts on life, or just how you went about everyday.

Ya know what I mean?

This is a more likely scenario for people who use COMPUTERS for journal writing and such. I can see a need to leave COMPUTER access password for someone when you are dead, but not internet stuff.

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[piisfish 140]

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I think this is a good idea, and plan on doing it today, and putting it in my safe.

Any thoughts, ideas?

yup leave money in the safe and give me the code for it

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[JohanW 0]

Yes, I have a password list. It's on the home computer even, but with "standard light password" and "standard heavy password" in a lot of places. In the safe is a USB stick with those passwords written out, and my family knows it's in there. That's family as in my parents and twin brother, because I live alone.

It's not to let anyone know I'm dead, it's for access to e-mail and banking stuff. And full access to my own computer, which my twin brother would know what to do with.

And yes, I take backups too. Daily. And my parents do as well, over the internet, to my server. My twin brother has his own backup server, also for daily backups. One of these days we're going to replicate to each other, apart from the tapes we have from each other and the catalogs we keep at each other's servers.

You mean not everybody does this?

Johan.
I am. I think.

[skydiverbry 0]

I'll leave the front door open for ya too



Bry

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[kansasskydiver 0]

In this case we wish the family member had left the password behind because all the pictures are on his external harddrive which he backed up to before buying a new computer over christmas

[Ketia0 0]

See and thats my thing too.. I have tons of our familes pictures all backed up on my laptop... Im supposed to get everyone copies, but keep putting it off..

Sorry to hear about your loss.

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[tjm 0]

It is risky, but i use primarily one password or minor variations of it and definately don't right it down.

If you're not living on the edge; you're taking up too much room!

[JohnMitchell 16]

I have dozens of password protected sites for money, work, insurance, etc. I wrote them down and keep them in my safe, which is 6 feet behind me as I type.

I occasionally try to streamline my password selection, but some sites allow only 8 characters, some take more, others require non-alphanumerics; others won't allow it.

[JohnRich 4]

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How many of you write down you passwords to your computers, email accounts, DZ.com account, and other things? I think this is a good idea, and plan on doing it today, and putting it in my safe.

How are those trusted people going to get into your safe to retrieve the passwords?

[Ketia0 0]

My parents have a key to my house, and my dad knows where my gun safe key, and paperwork safe key is.

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[skyrider 0]

If you have to write them down, they aren't very good passwords!

[regulator 0]

As an IT person I would state the importance of creating at BARE MINIMUM a complex password to have access to your admin profile. IE If its your personal computer and you only have one account...the first account created is for the admin account. I had my laptop with previous installs and either I wouldn't have a password or it was not remotely complex. Once I started using a complex password one of my old passwords: (Mc$sE03+) Since I started using complex passwords I haven't been infected with spyware as much and my computer hasn't crashed once in the past 3 years. I strongly suggest creating a complex password with uppercase, lowercase, and numbers ...at least 8 characters. It might take a few extra seconds to log in, but it will keep your computer running longer...provided you don't do anything stupid to ruin your build yourself.

[sebcat 0]

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After reading a thread, I couldnt help but think how important this may be.

It's important not to. Passwords are often times used for authentication, not just providing access. Giving someone the means to authentiate themselves as you is just a bad idea, no matter how trusted that person is. You might give your password list to your mother and think "hey, it's mom. She wouldn't pretend to be me" and you're probably/hopefully/maybe right. However, the safety of the authentication scheme is compromised since you no longer have control over the information needed to authenticate you on the Internet. You open up a lot of ways for a malicious attacker to gain access to your identity, or parts of it.

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How many of you write down you passwords to your computers, email accounts, DZ.com account, and other things in which you connect with people, in case something happens? So that a family member may go in and copy the good stuff; pictures, movies, personal stories?

If you want stuff like that to be accessible after your death, there's other ways of making that possible without giving up your means of authentication.

[airtwardo 7]

GREAT advise!


I always use to use simple ones but was shown the importance of 'complex' passwords after a friend hacked into my accounts in 30 seconds as a demonstration...

As far as having a list for reference, no way...but I do have an external memory that I back up any and all 'personal' pics & papers that might be of interest to others.

My banking, bills and porn die with me!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[happythoughts 0]

Family pics - don't just leave them on your hard drive.

Put them into directories by year.
Photos1990-1995
Photos2010

My dad had a bunch of 35mm slides. I took them in
and had them scanned. 30 cents a piece. 200 of them.
It was worth it. They put them on a DVD for me.

I copied the pics on to 10 CDs and passed them around
to family members. Never have to worry about losing
them in a disk crash or house disaster.

Naked pics of ex girlfriends and skydiving are not going
to be of interest to family.

Everyone uses pets, childrens names and birthdays.
I use part of the site name and an old zip code.
That way, easy to remember, but all unique.

[remibond 0]

the only reason i'd consider writing them down would be perhaps for sites that don't let you choose your own (eg UCAS in the UK) or in case i forgot them, but seeing as i only have about 3 i regularly use that doesn't seem particularly likely

[Baksteen 84]

A friend of mine who works in ICT once told me a story of how they went and did a routine check of every PC in a certain department.

Since passwords are hard to remember, some employees turned out to have written them down and hidden in the last place anyone would look, e.g. under their keyboards. The ICT department turned up no less than five passwords that way.

Ever since, I have had a post-it under my keyboard upon which is written:

"I ain't that stupid - Keep looking..."

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~mom

[shropshire 0]

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