Comments on: Ask Chris

By: Marika Mazzucchelli

Marika Mazzucchelli — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:02:42 +0000

Hi Pam,

Would you believe I have a terrible time remembering my passwords and PIN’s? It’s embarrassing, frankly. I do try and console myself with the idea I work for an ISP and therefore have an extraordinary number of passwords running through my brain cells…but I don’t think that cuts it in the end

Please don’t tell me your cryptic code is pig-latin! My husband has started using it of a morning when he’s taking the dog to the ‘ark-pay’ (because the dog knows park and gets super-excited!) I realise now how easy it is to understand and wonder why on earth we thought is was so cryptic when we were kids.

- Marika

By: Marika Mazzucchelli

Marika Mazzucchelli — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:43:47 +0000

Excellent idea, Bill!

By: pam

pam — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:52:48 +0000

Oh, yes, Marika this is obviously written by someone who has not reached middle age. LOL!! Hey wait till you get there and see how you go remembering dozens of passwords in your head . As to never writing them down….forget it…you just have to do it..no matter what anyone says and I do not believe that people do not do this.

What I do is write them down in a cryptic code that only I understand.

By: Bill Doyle

Bill Doyle — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:52:38 +0000

I’ve found that using bits of history like location and date meet those requirements. e.g.BitburgAB1950. I was not stationed there but at other locations at the time. To delve into my history would take quite a bit of guessing. However beware of place of birth and date.