What do you use for passwords?

[PurpleSky]

i use a universal password.....my phone number. ill throw in letters and symbols to complicate it, but if i lose it, i will always remember a majority of it.
and what did i do when my steam account got hacked? i changed the pass to my cell phone number LOL

I have a better ideea.I'll just use my social security number for my password,that way it'll always be safe .

 

[interspark]

My password is ********

Hey, look when you say your pass word it automatically blanks it out, everyone should try it

[HEADING=1]* WINK *[/HEADING]

NO! i usually just use my name, i have a polish surname so even if someone knows its my name they dont have a chance in hell of being able to spell it! XD

 

[nicholaxxx]

I have a random numbers/letters password which I got given by my school about 6 years ago. I've just never bothered to change it, so I'll remember it forever.

My password is ********

Hey, look when you say your pass word it automatically blanks it out, everyone should try it

[HEADING=1]* WINK *[/HEADING]

That reminds me of a 4chan screencap I saw one time.

it was for social security numbers, right?

also, I use the same password for everything, unless it requires a number, then I either add a 6 or a 1 to the end of it.

 

[Uncompetative]

An empty string... just hit Return.

When MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) installed a password control system in 1977, Richard Stallman found a way to decrypt the passwords and sent users messages containing their decoded password, with a suggestion to change it to the empty string (that is, no password) instead, to re-enable anonymous access to the systems. Around 20% of the users followed his advice at the time, although passwords ultimately prevailed. Stallman boasted of the success of his campaign for many years afterward.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Something complex in structure but still easy for me to remember.

 

[Jark212]

My password is: Password, it's so obvious it's impossible to guess!!!

I used to do this until I was talking to a friend of mine once and the topic got onto passwords and he said "Yeah, and then there are those idiots who used 'password' as if no-one would guess that"

I used to think I was so smart for using password...

At:33

 

[reg42]

I have a random numbers/letters password which I got given by my school about 6 years ago. I've just never bothered to change it, so I'll remember it forever.

My password is ********

Hey, look when you say your pass word it automatically blanks it out, everyone should try it

[HEADING=1]* WINK *[/HEADING]

That reminds me of a 4chan screencap I saw one time.

it was for social security numbers, right?

also, I use the same password for everything, unless it requires a number, then I either add a 6 or a 1 to the end of it.

Indeed it was. You gotta love the 4chan epic threads.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Normally a particularly obscure cultural reference, typically game related. They often contain numbers too.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Mine are all the same, but with variantions (randomly included numbers, capitalisations and suchlike)

A friend of mine has a 25-30 letter-long password. He can't remember it, and relies solely on muscle memory to get access to his laptop

 

[smokabul]

a random concoction of 8 to 12 letters numbers and other characters on my keyboard (!@#$%^&*()_+{}:">?|)

 

[UnwishedGunz]

i use a combination of 2 or 3 words that pop up into my head

btw this topic should have gone under off topic discussion

 

[ivarsa15]

My passwords usually starts as a combination of various letters and numbers, but in the end I spell all the numbers in letters, somehow that is easier to remember for me, and it usually doesn't take such a long time for me to type my password.

 

[tjarne]

I used paddlakajak for a long time, mainly because it feels so good to write it. You may find some browser game where I have used it and haven't changed. Otherwise I use a name and some random number.

 

[CrazyGeneral]

I have one password for things invovling money which is basically a serial number I got off my lucky charms box and the other is my middle initial spelled out on the numpad and I use it for not important things.

 

[oktalist]

I have a few different passwords, one for email, one for games, one for forums, one for social networking, two for my PC user and admin passwords and one for sites that know my bank details. Each has a different level of strength depending on the cost to me if it was cracked.

The best are random streams of letters (upper and lower case), numbers and punctuation. They are difficult to remember so I have a system for devising them:
1. Start with a made-up phrase or nonsence word that means something to you and noone else.
1a. If it's a phrase, use only the first letter of each word to make an acronym.
2. Transliterate letters into numbers that they resemble: B->8, E->3, g->9, I->1, O->0, S->5, Z->2.

 

[PurpleSky]

a random concoction of 8 to 12 letters numbers and other characters on my keyboard (!@#$%^&*()_+{}:">?|)

Welcome,and stay out of the Basement.

 

[Aeshi]

this entire thread smells of Schmuck Bait

 

[tux789]

I typically use "bunny" only typed in the Navajo alphabet. It's pretty secure.