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"Password Security for the Post-It Generation"

This post was written by Tom Mighell: "I talk to people all the time who don't want to use great password management tools like LastPass or Keepass because they're too confusing. These are the same people who like to keep passwords on Post-It notes pasted to the monitor, or note cards taped to your desk. For these friends of mine, I have found you a new solution: your Password Card. The premise is simple. Use a color printer to print out the card - it's designed to be carried in your purse or wallet (you can laminate the card if you want). The card has 9 rows of random numbers, letters (lower and upper case), and symbols, with a different color for each row. Just pick a direction - up or down, left or right, or diagonally if you can read that way - and select an 8 (or more) character password length. You can use one password for all your sites, but that's not very safe - but no worries, you've got plenty of characters on your card for dozens of passwords. For those of you who like to keep your passwords on your smartphone, there's also a mobile version of the site. Although I prefer to use an electronic password manager, the bottom line is that everyone should be doing more to create and manage better passwords. And PasswordCard certainly does that."

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Source: Inter Alia, 7 June 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 24, 2010 (boomark / email).