[unbornzodiac]

came home for a bad day... i don't know if this belongs here but i couldn't find anywhere else to post. anyways, i am registered in cal, but that doesn't really matter...my pw for the account got hacked and i used that pw for pretty much everything, got on aim and saw that i couldn't connect due to an incorrect password. now i had to change everything, each one different and as long with as many things to make me feel secure as possible. so, i was wondering that my password for the account had nothing to do with my username of any sort. i am positive that the other team did this to me. so, is there like a program out there that can get a password or something...not like i want to know to do this to them or anything. you can just like tell me yes/no or something, but i was thinking that there is nothing that can get my password...anyways, this is just a bad day also, another question, is there a possible way to delete an email account, like for hotmail or something? thanks.

[Dave]

That's a hard lesson to learn about passwords. I must admit that I have learned a similar one. Now I use a random password generator to make mine, and there's no repeats!

You can probably get anything that you want on the internet.

If you forget your password and you have auto-fill on, there is a program by SnadBoy the will change the dots or asterisks into the alpha-numeric form.

Dave

[TheMajor]

Originally posted by DMo224
That's a hard lesson to learn about passwords. I must admit that I have learned a similar one. Now I use a random password generator to make mine, and there's no repeats!

so u have a different password for each website you are visiting? how do you remember them? Do u use a password manager?

[FireFox]

the easiest way.......if you ask me....is to right them down on a piece of paper and put it in your wallet.........

[unbornzodiac]

yea, now i have a different password for everything, i write it on a post-it and hide it...errr having a rough time, since they're all so long and i don't have my browser remember the password...

[Dave]

Originally posted by TheMajor
so u have a different password for each website you are visiting? how do you remember them? Do u use a password manager?

I have a couple of password managers. I also write the files to a CD to save them and print them when needed.

Then, I change 'em about every month to three months, depending upon the "importance" of the site.

Dave

[Keyboard Cowboy]

Originally posted by DMo224
I have a couple of password managers. I also write the files to a CD to save them and print them when needed.

Just what / how password managers work?
Like I keep my password on my PDA, but what can the password manager do the job better for me?

[jaksback]

heheh, my password manager consists of using my old petname for the ex and the name of my bicycle

[Silent_Fear]

You should try Password Safe. You store your usernames and passwords in a password protected database, so you only have to remember one password. Then you can just copy and paste the username and password. It also has a password generator that generates hard-to-crack passwords.

I don't like writing my passwords down, because then if you accidently leave it somewhere and someone else finds it, your kind of screwed.


-Silent Fear

[Dave]

Originally posted by Harper
Just what / how password managers work?

Silent_Fear just answered that. Most of them will keep your username and password in the program, and will also have a generator built in.

Using anything that is familiar for you is an easier way for people to guess your password.

Dave