Keeping your password in your mind is the worst of the above options. A good password keeper is best IF you have proper on & offsite backup procedures for the vault. A sticky note is OK, ideally not the "sticky" part, since you want to keep it out of sight. I tell the computer-challenged ones I help to write it down and treat it like a credit card.

On come on, how hard could "1-2-3-4-5" be to memorize!?

I use ********** instead. Even on my luggage.

I have a client who has something similar as his password. The funny part: He has a sticky note with his password (and username, which is "first + last name") on the backside of his monitor! And he always complains to me when a website or service won't allow him to set this as his password, because it requires a password with at least 8 characters, a capital letter, a number and a special character. His password doesn't fulfill any of these requirements :P



ps. Before anyone tells me to explain to him why he shouldn't use something similar to 12345 as his password: I did! Countless times. All I could do was to slightly modify his password to fit the above requirements. That modification makes it similar to something like "123456A!" now -.- It only took him 20 or 30 "How is my password?" messages to memorize the minor adjustment (nope, he still didn't write it on his sticky note...). Password manager? Forget it. He doesn't want to use one. He wants HIS password and he wants it to be safe (I told him that it doesn't work like that). No way to help this guy. I told him he'll definitely be hacked one day and probably lose access to some of his accounts before I can react, but he's still using that silly password. And he's not exactly someone who's careful with apps, websites and mails. He installs and opens everything, because someone told him that Macs are very secure machines.

LOL I was going to make a comment sort of in this vein but you already dropped one much better than the one I had queued up.

What? That's so stupid! That sounds like the code a moron would use on his luggage!

That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!

My folks, well my mother, sees no point to passwords because she doesn't get or understand why and how anyone could use it against her. She gets Amazon, and I took over the joint account, but she doesn't understand viruses. I tell her not to open suspicious emails or download stuff without checking the source, and she ignores me.

"But why would someone want to put a virus on my computer? That's stupid."

She sounds so innocent.Damn those hackers and basement monkeys for going after her password ;).Cheers

Lmao, thank you very much!

That's my grandma. I got her a laptop and signed her up for a computer course a few years ago. One of my biggest mistakes...

My mother's pretty good with computers. Only thing she's got is that she's pretty inpatient and never reads notification windows. She just hits the ok, yes or next button to get done with whatever she's doing. But she knows how to uninstall McAffee or the Ask and Alexa toolbars, so that's not too big of a problem. It's just annoying when there really is a problem with something on her PC (which doesn't happen that often anymore).

Her: "Something's wrong. An error notification popped up and the programm stopped working."
Me: "What did the notification say?"
Her: "I don't know... Something about an error..."
-.-

But she knows how to fix stuff herself, so this is okay. She's just too inpatient to analyze the exact problem first. She prefers to google "program xyz stopped working" and to try some random solutions that sound like they could work for her problem.

One of the first plugins/ modules/ addons/ scripts/ etc we wrote for our clients and the software we support was a list of disallowed passwords. We took the top 100 from a list we found online, setup a check against an array and offered it to our clients.

Rejected passwords are in our top 10 for support questions....

Been meaning to start a "How do you manage your passwords?" thread around here just to see if anyone has other ideas. Surprised one hasn;t been done already after all these years:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agog.com+manage+your+passwords
Tell her they want her recipes. :)

Wonder if it comes from living up there. Regional culture thing maybe? I once went over to the folks house and nobody was home. Found a note on the locked front door:

"Went to Asdaf;ij;lire (town). Be back in an hour. Back door is unlocked. Love, Mom"

Uhhh...

True, true. Someone can hack into your mind, I've seen it done in some movie.

Anyway, I read somewhere that "correct horse battery staple" is the best possible password, so I use it.

Still susceptible to the "wrench attack". You need to close your eyes, flip your keyboard upside down and start mashing.

Oh and don't forget to click "Keep me logged in"