Originally Posted by
Dave Fitzgerald
Alas, with this special screen I am afraid my only destiny is re-education in the tower. As simpleton co-worker I cannot possibly remember so many mixtures of letters and numbers and will surely raise the red flag of suspicion upon myself when I repeatedly fail to login correctly. If I am somehow able to learn password, then I am afraid I cannot forget it and nine others when a new password is required. Under this new system, I see that my life was already better yesterday than it will be tomorrow.
I solve this problem for the many sites, work and otherwise, I must log in to and frequently change passwords by using the same root word with a rotating numeral in front or behind it. Then you can remember your password and the last several easily. Example:
juniormanme1
In 90 days, it becomes ...
juniormanme2
and so on. If you start with 01, you can get 99 passwords before you duplicate (or need a new root word) which is convenient ... since one service I use requires that you not use any of your previous 24(!) passwords.
The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain ...