Microsoft Security Expert: Write down your password
Filed in: Security — May 24th, 2005
Companies should not ban employees from writing down their passwords because such bans force people to use the same weak term on many systems, according to a Microsoft security guru.
“How many have (a) password policy that says under penalty of death you shall not write down your password?” asked Johansson, to which the majority of attendees raised their hands in agreement. “I claim that is absolutely wrong. I claim that password policy should say you should write down your password. I have 68 different passwords. If I am not allowed to write any of them down, guess what I am going to do? I am going to use the same password on every one of them.”
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He got his point. what about you? Do you write down passwords? I know a friend, he use single password for ALL password fields.
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May 25th, 2005 at 9:16 am
I never write down my own password. I used every single password for everything in the net here. I think writing down password is not a good idea lor. Might venurable to any sort of attack especially writing down in microsoft words form and put it on the com.
May 25th, 2005 at 6:58 pm
I have 3 different passwords, two main passwords and one being a variety of the first one to get the approperiate length. I don’t write down my passwords though, but if I were to forget which one I used (doubt that though) I can just retrieve the password from my KeyChain.
I used to have 5 passwords before but I cut it down a little. My main password is for any website I come across, the second one for websites I suspect having “weak security”.