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From: Dan Mitchell <danmitchell@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:20:55 -0700
Moose wrote:
> The perennial problem; how do I avoid forgetting my password without 
> putting it where others may find it.

  Bruce Schneier (security researcher) says "write it on a bit of paper 
-- now you have a valuable bit of paper, so put it with all your other 
valuable bits of paper, in your wallet".

  Seems fair enough. The exact quote:

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/bruce-schneier-blazes-through-your-questions/

  "Q: How do you remember all of your passwords?

A: I can’t. No one can; there are simply too many. But I have a few 
strategies. One, I choose the same password for all low-security 
applications. There are several Web sites where I pay for access, and I 
have the same password for all of them. Two, I write my passwords down. 
There’s this rampant myth that you shouldn’t write your passwords down. 
My advice is exactly the opposite. We already know how to secure small 
bits of paper. Write your passwords down on a small bit of paper, and 
put it with all of your other valuable small bits of paper: in your 
wallet. And three, I store my passwords in a program I designed called 
Password Safe. It’s is a small application — Windows only, sorry — that 
encrypts and secures all your passwords. "

  I'm sure there's Mac password storage apps out there; the basic idea 
is that you only have to remember one to get you into the password 
storage, and then everything else is in there.

  -- dan

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