Best Password Protection EVER!

Such a rip off of the original: http://www.bytecafe.net/files/2011/04/password-post-it-note-300x260.jpg

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That'd be handy to have around. I could just hide it behind a family photo or under my keyboard so all my passwords were safe and within easy reach.
 
The least the could have done is put a little diary lock on it. Preferably the kind that have the key attached so you don't lose it.
 
As an administrator who has to use a couple hundred various accounts and passwords, this would be a life saver!
 
Now I can put my password "password" in a binder where I can save my passwords!!!


YAY!!!!
 
I LOL'd when i saw this at a Hallmark store near my house as well! Sad part is 98% of the public think that's a great idea..
 
Velocity said:
The least the could have done is put a little diary lock on it. Preferably the kind that have the key attached so you don't lose it.
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It doesn't need a diary lock, it clearly says on the cover to put it in a safe place
 
Although dad use the serial number off the bottom of the keyboard. for a long time....

that worked until he got a new keyboard.
 
Wow, my mom came up with this same idea almost ten years ago! She keeps the book next to her monitor for handy access. ;) Seriously though, if someone is physically at your computer, password security isn't going to help much. Might as well write down complicated passwords and actually use them instead of using one easily remembered (and guessed/cracked) password everywhere.

If you happen to shop thrift stores like Goodwill, take a walk down the computer/electronics aisle and check out the keyboards. You'd be surprised and entertained by how often there are post-its and tape still on the bottom of keyboards with passwords on them. I've even seen usernames, passwords, and what account/site they work on listed.
 
Where can I buy this? It would make a great gag gift for the other sysadmins at work.
 
Probably a book to help you build passwords and remember them..... but then again, I see the word "websites":eek:
 
I can imagine a kid giving this to his parents. Find it afterards and free access to the internets!
 
I have a book like this. Saves my life daily after having a stroke take my short term from me. Worth every penny. That and i live by post-its now.
 
But people forget things like lotro requires you to use weak passwords... and it is much easier to use something like password safe which lets you copy and paste the passwords into the fields defeating even key loggers since a key logger would record the ctrl-c ctrl-v but not the words.

In password safe case the passwords are stored with the password to open them as the hash making it very difficult for someone else to get at them and harder to open them up once you do.

Verse paper that can be picked up and copied without you knowing it.
 
When I moved into my new house a few years back I found a packet of printed papers stapled together that had been stuck up wedged in the back of a drawer in a cabinet. It had passwords to just about every site you could imagine someone would have a login to back from 2000 till about 2004ish. There was napster, blockbuster, all kinds of utility billing web sites. Hotmail, yahoo mail (ironically no gmail, guess they were behind on the times back then even).
 
Chimay said:
I LOL'd when i saw this at a Hallmark store near my house as well! Sad part is 98% of the public think that's a great idea..
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I have a book that serves the same function.

It's absolutely uncrackable from the web. :)

It hasall the important passwords in it, and is in a firesafe with extremely limited access. (Past the rottweiler, in the closet beside the gun safe.)

I also keep a well-salted, encrypted, printed text copy offsite, and update it every six months; now that's on the anal-retentive side, lol.

If someone has physical access to the book, they have full access. But:

Windows isn't any more secure than that; I've used lopht crack to get passwords recently, and it still works. (it was "cheese", wtf...) All it takes is a live boot disk or device.

This is much more secure than a file stored somewhere.
 
drakken said:
But people forget things like lotro requires you to use weak passwords...
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Wait what? It requires you to? To what degree? :eek:

I guess that is not to surprising. Apparently Battle.net passwords are not case sensitive. :rolleyes:
 
All my passwords, except one, are written down in a Black & Red notebook on a shelf in my office at home. If you are powerful/clever enough to get a look at it, I only have to worry about remembering the one in my head.
 
necrosis said:
Wait what? It requires you to? To what degree? :eek:

I guess that is not to surprising. Apparently Battle.net passwords are not case sensitive. :rolleyes:
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You have to use 8-12 chars only letters and numbers if you want the password to work on the forums. I had a very secure password on my account for years then they changed the forums and I could not log in until I make a very weak password. I forgot about bnet they are worse. lol
 
Cool Story Bro time:

I bought something at a hospital's gift store, then decided I wanted another of the same item. The credit card swiper asked for its password. The cashier was baffled and was going to go to the manager's office to get the password. On the swiper, clearly visible to me, was a small piece of paper with the words "password: 1234". I pointed it out to her, she used it and it worked. So many levels of fail...
 
I know this sounds bad, but family members could keep their passwords in the "family safe" just in case the unthinkable happens.
 
ninjaturtle said:
Probably a book to help you build passwords and remember them..... but then again, I see the word "websites":eek:
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nope, it actually is for storing them. if you go the site there it talks about a little sleve you can get to hide it.



rigurat said:
I know this sounds bad, but family members could keep their passwords in the "family safe" just in case the unthinkable happens.
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Could? Might want to change that to should. It really isn't bad but proper planning. Especially for single people. If you died tomorrow would anyone in your family know any of your passwords to be able to get into your computer to get anything off of there that you have? pictures, home movies... stuff that they would want to keep. Would anyone be able to close out your accounts? would they know what all lines of credit that you have to be able to close them out / inform them of your dealth? Would they know who in your list of contacts to inform that you have passed away?

Doesn't just apply to single people though. even for married people, if one person does all the online billing for everything, the other would still need a list in case something happen to be able to take over paying everything. Or for the other stuff as far as closing out accounts, notifying contacts...

How about at work? are there any passwords that only you know? what would happen if something was to happen to you (dead or serious injury) would the company be able to get by or would they be completely screwed.

A password protected file on a flash drive in a safe or something. or if you want to go really crazy, password protected file on a flash drive or DVD or something like that in a safe with a note about how the password is stored in a safety deposit box at a bank under account xxxxx. Ensures that the password for the password list would be safe unless somebody stole your safe and broke into the bank and stole your safety deposit box. At which point you have much larger thinks to worry about.
 
rigurat said:
I know this sounds bad, but family members could keep their passwords in the "family safe" just in case the unthinkable happens.
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But then where would I put the safe combo??? Oh wait a post-it note on the side of the safe.. BRILLIANT!
 
I like a Truecrypt container better. Only one password needed.
 
drakken said:
You have to use 8-12 chars only letters and numbers if you want the password to work on the forums. I had a very secure password on my account for years then they changed the forums and I could not log in until I make a very weak password. I forgot about bnet they are worse. lol
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bnet is worse? My passwords have been >15 characters, contain upper, lower, numbers, and symbols. I am pretty sure that is just about as complicated as you can make a password. And honestly, longer is harder to crack than having more numbers or symbols.
 
Golbez said:
When I moved into my new house a few years back I found a packet of printed papers stapled together that had been stuck up wedged in the back of a drawer in a cabinet. It had passwords to just about every site you could imagine someone would have a login to back from 2000 till about 2004ish. There was napster, blockbuster, all kinds of utility billing web sites. Hotmail, yahoo mail (ironically no gmail, guess they were behind on the times back then even).
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i bought a computer off craigslist where the previous owner had all his passwords stored in the programs.
(quicken, itunes, email... etc)
 
I have a typed up guide that I keep updated with all of the information, passwords, ID copies, account numbers, legal documents, contacts, etc you would ever need to completely infiltrate my life. There are two copies, one is in my Liberty safe, the other is at the bank. It's pretty much a "if shit hits the fan or I'm dead" book for my wife, and when I got in a wreck and spent a few days unconscious it came in extremely handy for her.

There's nothing wrong with writing this stuff down, it's actually a good idea. You just have to update it and keep it in a safe place.
 
My passwords are totally random and I never need to remember them, because I simply click forgot my password every time.
 
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