Community weekly poll: How often do you change your passwords?
- 2/22/06 5:35 PM
How often do you change your passwords?
by Marc Bennett - 2/22/06 5:35 PM
How often do you change your passwords?
Once a week
Every other week
Once a month
Every six months
Rarely
Never, I live on the edge
(NT) Monthly for 12+ character alphanumeric passcodes.
by John.Wilkinson - 2/22/06 8:21 PM
In reply to: How often do you change your passwords? by Marc Bennett
Change passwords?
by tmaroun - 2/24/06 10:50 AM In reply to: (NT) Monthly for 12+ character alphanumeric passcodes. by John.Wilkinson
Are you kidding? I'd sooner have a root canal. I can barely remember the ones I have let alone changing them. XP gives me that little reminded every so often (I must have set it up for password recognition) and it annoys me no end.
I guess I have a lot of company....78% of us are Rarely or never....living on the edge.
Changing passwords
by KaosFaction - 2/25/06 8:32 AM In reply to: Change passwords? by tmarounYes I know that I should but I cannot remember passwords and would forget.
I am the only one who uses this computer and I keep all antivirus and anti spy ware up to date and run them often.I'll just take my chances and avoid the inconvenience of not knowing the correct password Jeanric
Suitable password length?
by lateball - 2/23/06 9:57 PM In reply to: How often do you change your passwords? by Marc Bennett
Well I never change my passwords too often, maybe once a year or so, and I use the same password for every site and logins so that I do not have trouble remembering each one of them.
Hey, that brings a question to my mind about the suitable length of password. How long do you think a good password is when it's:
a) alpha-numeric case-sensitive
b) characters only without numbers
Might we turn it to a poll?
Changing passwords with new computer and
by caroljmoff - 2/24/06 8:00 AM In reply to: Suitable password length? by lateballI am upgrading to a new computer and going to change all my passwords. I have not changed my passwords prior to this because I was under the assumption that most of my passwords were hard to figure out. They had upper and lower case; numbers and symbols.
Passwords and memory
by Minormidas - 2/24/06 2:28 AM In reply to: How often do you change your passwords? by Marc Bennett
Even as a young man I forgot where I parked my bicycle let alone remembering words. Now, at middle age I keep the same
password because if I think up a new one I am sure I couldnt remember. Writing it down would defeat the purpose of security. So better one intricate password than a lot I can`t remember.
Minormidas
Changing passwords: why?
by davetroup - 2/24/06 3:00 AM In reply to: Passwords and memory by MinormidasI don't see any point in changing passwords. So long as you don't give your password to anyone (and I never have, and never will), and don't write it down or do anything to lose it, I don't see that changing your password buys you one iota of extra security.
If someone is going to "hack" your password, presumably by some automated method of trying huge combinations of passwords, it doesn't really matter whether you changed it yesterday or not, right? They're going to hack today's version.
It seems to me that by having a secure password (mine is a nonsense word and some interspersed numbers, completely unguessable) and keeping it to yourself, you are just as safe as someone who changes passwords frequently.
I have basically two passwords, one that I use for sites where a password security breach could cause me real harm (i.e. banking sites, and the like) and another for sites where security isn't so important to me (online shopping sites.) I assume the banking sites have the best security, and I don't entrust my banking password to fly-by-night sites that might not have high security standards.
Ideally, of course, I'd have a different password for every site. But I'd have to write them down then, which defeats the whole purpose!
Really
by mrkillerman - 2/26/06 6:55 PM In reply to: Changing passwords: why? by davetroupPlease lets not forget about the codebreakers. They try every letter and number until they get the right one...one at a time...may take awhile but still it gets the job done. No I don't change only on sites that require you to have numbers in your password.
Passwords and memory
by ronrumpf - 2/25/06 2:56 PM In reply to: Passwords and memory by MinormidasI'll second that thought... I have paswords to prevent some one from the outside from accessing my system. My family also knows most of my passwords and I don't have anything important or valuable on my system. I run Zone Alarm firewall but if someone was to get in I would change my passwords.
Passwords
by mattamus - 2/24/06 3:40 AM In reply to: How often do you change your passwords? by Marc Bennett
Ok, great answer, but limited. now that you've advise our KIDS to change THEIR passwords often, HOW DO WE as parents locate UNKNOWN PASSWORDS on our kids systems? or is that too much for you guru's to understand Parent responsiblities begin at home even in a home
of Trust their is still verify....
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Suggestions...
by John.Wilkinson - 2/24/06 5:44 PM
In reply to: Passwords by mattamus
* If you really want to know their passwords, ask them! If they won't tell you, bar them from using the computer.
* Spend $200 for a password-recovery program that will reveal the passwords of anyone/everyone using the computer. Think LostPassword.com.
* Use software that limits or monitors their actions. For suggestions and reviews, click here.
* If you use Windows XP, give them Limited User accounts so that you can access their information from your account. If they make the folder private, take ownership of the files/folder. Also, learn about using permissions to limit what they can and cannot do.
* If it is another version of Windows anyone can access anyone's files, so browse. Just beware of encryption software. If you encounter that, go to the source...your kids.
With the computer in the living room or other open family area, supervision (even if you just poke your head in every so often), the proper guidance, and a few protectve software measures, you can greatly reduce the chance of ever having a crisis involving your children and the computer.
Hope this helps,
John
It seems that, in the interest of security
by Steven Haninger - 2/24/06 4:12 AM In reply to: How often do you change your passwords? by Marc Bennett
This question should not be asked. If a person calls on you saying he represents a home security system company and asks you what kind of system you have, are you going to tell him? Would you tell him "none"? If so, you may have just set yourself up for a break in. "Don't ask, don't tell". That's how I see this.
I Never Change My Password (Rarely)
by viking - 2/24/06 4:25 AM In reply to: How often do you change your passwords? by Marc Bennett
I run twin AMD 2000 plus 1 gig of ram, but my way of never changing passwords is because I have 5 SCSI removerable drives and all my info is stored in DOS in a UNIX shell on one of these drives. The software I use to retrieve this info is from "KROLL ONTRACK".
Using Good Electronic technology is the safest way to store data, and remember,
"Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an email."
The Viking
Passwords
by mbell390 - 2/24/06 5:31 AM In reply to: How often do you change your passwords? by Marc Bennett
PROTECTION! PROTECTION! PROTECTION! 6 months or bust!
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