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Yeah I basically do the same with my gold bars. Don't put em in the safe or the next burglar will know that there is good stuff and also where it is...
I just put them into my wardrobe in my bedroom under some old clothes i never wear.
...uhhmm... wait ... what?!
But in all seriousness I have advice for people who are undecided about their "personal password police"
The way I do it... and it works out for me pretty solid and without having to use a 3rd party master key style solution...is just to
setup my passwords in the following scheme (it's not 100% according to what I do but I can tell you it is a very similar system)
FOR EXAMPLE
password for mail -> N5=i3yBz2paperK0F-4noL!
password for windows at home -> N5=i3yBz2workK0F-4noL!
password for amazon -> N5=i3yBz2stuffK0F-4noL!
password for bank account -> N5=i3yBz2emptyK0F-4noL!
(this is of course not a 1-way auth in most of the cases anyway)
so as you can see in this example case the passwords consist of 3 parts
2 parts that are identical in each password but that are using special characters, big letters, small letters and numbers
which are wrapped around one middle part that is easy to remember but is different for each password.
this way your password is not the same for every service and you still have a overall very high complexity for each password.
at the same time you can remember the identical parts easily because they are burnt into your head already...you just learn them and never forget them.
and the variable parts can be for example words that you can personally link with the service u are using them for and so they are pretty easy to remember as well.
of course you can use another logic, like use birthdates instead of words as the variable part. or soccer players. or something totally different. also there are much more ways of putting in different logic in these passwords ... you just have to be imaginative.
so yeah, basically this is kind of a master password (not variable part) solution for the poor
i only use different passwords when i expect the system i use it on to be prone to administrator abuse
to avoid admins checking for certain patterns. also on "unimportant" stuff like forums or (non-google-account-centralized) entertainment services. then i just use simple words or their modification. in the style and rather simple complexity of for example: n1ghtl1f3
but never the same password for more than 1 service.
Last edited by Fragment; 14 Jun 2015 at 17:05.