Ok Maybe It's My Paranoia Striking ...
I keep watching all these hackers getting into online services and I have always tried to make my passwords difficult to guess. Not using family member names or identifiable numbers but they still seem to get into the sites and get the information. So far mine hasn't been taken over but who knows.
Anyway I set up a small 5x8 card in Excell and a Document on my Google account to help protect myself.
As you can see on the Excell I have two collumns one for the password and I have done two sheets one with a 6 character password and one with an 8 character password. The other collumn is the identification code.
some of these I don't have to look up the identification code because I use it fairly often. But those that I don't use often I have an associated document on Google that shows the identification code along with the site it links to. The password is not on this document it is only on the excell sheet.
I have been using a free password generator that will randomly create character sets and that is how I got both the passwords and the identification code.
Like I said at the start maybe this is my paranoia coming out but if someone finds it helpful great.
I intend to keep using it.
PS the attached file is a sample file not the one I am currently using.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Sample Passwords & Code.xls | 20 KB |
WOW!
I don't think anyone is going to break that code. I would consider you pretty safe!!!
Great ideas!
nay nay
Just because you're paranoid...
doesn't mean they aren't after you.
from Catch-22
>:D
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)
Paranoia is good. Also, you
Paranoia is good. Also, you need to check your bank statement carefully as soon as it arrives, and even go online and check more frequently. Anyone who gets their hands on one of your paper checks can go online and use your account to pay their utility bills, cell phone bills, etc. One of my business clients' bank account was used by a bookkeeper at one of their vendors. This woman defrauded her employer of $200,000 and also took the employer's customers checks and by using their bank routing numbers and account numbers paid her own bills online. You'd be surprised how many people never reconcile their bank accounts. At least open the statement and look at it carefully, in case something like this happens. Someone who works at a big company can do a few transactions on one account, then a few on another, for quite a while before someone catches on.
A couple of months ago we changed some of our bank accounts around, and when I went online to change the bank accounts we used to pay our bills, none of the companies required any confirmation that these were actually our bank accounts.
The banks only give you 60 days to report any fraud and get a refund.
We recently had a gang of postal employees steal a lot of checks from mail, also. They went on a spending spree and caused a lot of trouble for the people they defrauded.
So our bank routing numbers and account numbers are critical information that we can't encode. As far as I know, we just have to be very vigilant and watch the activity on our accounts.
Paranoia. It's the wind
Paranoia. It's the wind beneath your wings.