Password Woes

           The first time I came across passwords was in Enid Blyton books where kids get a thrill of using passwords for entry to their play groups. Later I read about secret societies who used passwords and signs to prevent infiltration into their groups. The masonic handshakes were the passwords of the times.

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      These days everyone needs passwords. . Is there anyone today, who doesn’t have to remember a one? They  are here to stay and  it is not just kids and secret societies who need passwords and signs like a masonic handshake .

An Excerpt from PC magazine

Everyone Needs a Password Manager
How many on-line accounts do you have? A dozen? A hundred? Do you remember a hundred different, strong passwords, or do you use the same simple password for all of them? Hackers routinely cross a list of weak passwords with a list of, say, PayPal accounts, trolling for matches. If they crack your account, you could lose big money. Worse, if you used that same password for other accounts, the hackers could take control of your email, social media, and financial accounts. Using a unique, strong password for every site is essential, and the only way to do it is to enlist the help of a password manager.

          Actually in using passwords we are met with a kind of conflicting requirements ; on one hand it should be easy enough to remember when you want to use it and on the other hand, it should be extremely difficult for anyone else to guess. Should you write it down or just commit to memory and risk forgetting it ? It goes without saying that when you want to avoid writing it down it is not going to be something like “@3$eZYT67U5”. There are any number of organizations where abc123 is a kind of standard password; the main reason for that being, to be  locked out of your own account can be worse than the risk of someone hacking your account.

            Sometimes it can be very frustrating to receive something like  a bank statement that is not accessible without a password. Even Bills are password protected. But then, companies are very helpful in helping  you to access your bills. How else would you know how much to pay them ? Today I got a communication from ideacellular :

   “ Dear Customer, Your Idea E-Bill dated 27-MAR-18 has been sent to murali@gmail.com with Password abcd1234, For query dial 12345.”

Can’t expect every mailer to be considerate .

        Most people take the help of the computer and are very happy to click when a browser asks “Do you want me to remember it ?” “Yes, Yes, Yes, please do “ . How does a computer remember it ? By writing it down in a file ,obviously. So anyone who has access to your computer can have a look at all your passwords stored by the browser.

So, what do we do. Unix /Linux users are inherently more security conscious and have some idea of how passwords function. I refrain from commenting on MS Windows firstly because I don’t know much about it and secondly because what I do know about the OS is not all that flattering.

For Linux users both KDE and Gnome Desktop Environments have password key rings Gnome key ring and KDE Wallet which are used to store passwords. Even here the puritans among Linux users are not satisfied till they have a system of Public Key and Private key to encrypt and decrypt all important files.

Everyone has to find his/her own solution to the problem depending on how tech savvy he or she is . The option of running away from technology is out unless you have a very considerate spouse or a friend who acts as your hard disk (storing everything, but not using the inputs for himself/herself )

I myself prefer to use a password manager for storing not so critical passwords and a gpg key for more critical passwords like bank accounts , trading accounts, main email account , amazon etc.(depending on memory is no more an option at this age) It goes without saying that your passwords for critical accounts should never be the same ones you use for non critical accounts.

Whatever be, “creating and managing passwords is not child’s play but a serious business at least till such time we all become “anguta chaap” (illiterates) and can get along by identifying ourselves by just thumb impressions!

 

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