Of one’s existence. I know, I know, passwords are important, but they really are a pain in the arse!

Everything should have its own password, one or two you might be able to repeat, but definitely not advisable. For work, if you work for a corporation, you are going to have to change your password every 90 days, sometimes less! For personal, you really should change them every so often, or make them crazy hard to crack!

Some people have password generators, but who can remember that! Then some people are old school and keep their passwords on a note pad on their phones, not the best, but if your phone is password protected, you’ve added a layer there.

I use a site called Dashlane, and per Wikipedia, “Dashlane is a subscription-based password manager and digital wallet application available on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. Dashlane uses a freemium pricing model with a subscription plan option.” I love this application! It saves all my passwords, important information, and even credit card numbers. One of the advantages is that it auto populates website and apps for me, if I give it permission. There are a bunch of these types of applications/password keepers out there, this one works for me.

Oh, and don’t get me started on multi-factor authenticators [MFA], oh brother! I have to use them for work, and promise, I know that a second layer of protection is a good thing, and it’s safer, it’s still a pain in the…

I’ll admit, I used to be one of those people who used the same password for just about everything, then I got wise and changed some, then some more, then some more. What really gets me is when I have a password I know is good, I can see it and then I go to a website I have accessed from the same device thousands of times and the site tells me it doesn’t recognize the device I am using. Seriously? Well…then I get really creative with my passwords, nothing that I could say in public, but spelled in a crazy way that will satisfy the password g-ds.

Just expressing here…I will do what I need to do to keep my information safe.

Th@nk U @nd gO0dn!te.