That would work, if I had like ten or twenty of them to remember.
No amount of studying is gonna make me remember almost a hundred strings of 24 random characters.
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icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 months agoFlashcards. Write down your credentials and memorize them. Throw them away willy nilly when you’re done.
Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It was supposed to be joke 😔
Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Damn, I see that now. The heat wave is making me stupid, my brain isn’t made for 35C
its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 2 months ago
That’s your new password friend! For everything! “My-brain-isnt-made-for-35c”. /s
jay2@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Don’t use random characters. Use absurd phrases that mean something to you.
passenger@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Hey, don’t use a password manager like KeePass, because brain is the only safe place to store passwords. In order to do that, WRITE THEM ON FLASH CARDS to memorize them and then THROW THEM AWAY
Tell me it was a joke
jay2@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Flashcards are your brains friend. They are no joke.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
A paper notebook is basically the same fundamental as a password manager but with a different tradeoff. You trade cryptographic security for a reliance on physical security. Its probably a great option for a lot of older people who only log into things from home. But its just a password manager. An analogue one.
Flashcards are dumb for this. If you are going to write it down, just secure it. Don’t have them out all the time to try to memorise it. Jese. The worst of both.
passenger@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Writing down your password is… Breaking the very first rule ecer made about passwords… A cliche
jay2@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Write clues to your passphrase, not the actual passphrase. I spend a fair amount of time making my username and password. I choose something that I’m going to remember.
As an example, I was asked to attend a meeting to check out a point maker, a box that bombards objects with photons to collect the reflections, generating a 3d point cloud model that can be measured in cad. This particular one was fairly awful. Bottom of the barrel effort. The salesman was a complete slob, he was late, he took forever to set it up and had much difficulty getting it to actually work. When it did, it measured a 12.75" brick at 14.5". I knew right away it was shit.
They forced us to create an new account on the laptop with the software as it was too advanced and proprietary (pukes) for me to run it on my cad workstation. So, my password begrudgingly became a stylized derivation of “This Guys Balls Smell Like Cheese”. I still remember that password to this day 12 years later.
Not only that, but when we would have the guy out to troubleshoot, I would sometimes have to log in for him to repeat our steps. The salesman was always impressed with my typing speed and ability to remember my password. He probably never even knew my password was a total insult at him. My clue for the pass phrase was “Lynard Skynard”.