Password Phobias..!!

Have you ever thought how many passwords we are using in our day to day life?

Suppose say you login into the computer, login into the bank account, ATM machine and almost everywhere we need a password.

If you count in a daily basis then average 8-9 passwords we are using.

For me it sometime difficult to remember all those passwords, so I write them in one file and use it whenever requires. Only smart people do that way... :): P

Whenever it expires, we require some special creative skill to think a lot that what will be my next password.

As a human tendency, we usually keep our password with related to someone or with some incidents (of course our birthday is also one incident or an accident: P) i.e. Our father’s name, brother’s name, birthday, anniversary date and with little manipulation.

Also there is constraint like if you have used the password once in a system, sometimes don’t allow you to use it again (depends upon the system). On top of that, we have already tried almost our entire family person’s name for the password (no one left), because no one should feel of injustice.

Here one incident which describes that even password policy makers feeling the same phobia.
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Once, I was sitting with my Security Manger. (Security Manager of our Office who’s mainly responsibility to look after the security policy related to computer and media). Suddenly, He forgot his password and asking his colleague that what password he kept it for his machine?

I saw that he is also suffering from the password phobia.

After that, He started criticising about “why too many passwords”?
I wonder because he is the chief in designing the security policy for the organization and asking about his own password to his colleague. : P.
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Any how, we all are experiencing this password phobias and some or other way we are managing that.

As we grow in this digital world, security is the one major aspect which we mainly have to focus. We will get little relaxation when the movie like Minority Report becomes actual reality where everything is accessible through your eyes or finger print as a password.