We’re heading toward the end of another year, so I know it will start to happen soon. Some programs I have will start to ask me to change my password. Which I will quickly forget. Because that’s what I do.
It happens with a couple things every year, and even though for those couple things I may try to follow the rules and change my passwords, they will be gone from my head quickly. I think my capacity for passwords has long ago been exceeded.
I had to swap out my computer at work, since the old one was showing signs that it was soon going to pack it in. So there were even more password changes that had to be made. Except I couldn’t remember the old ones so I could change them.
Then there are things like Google, which keeps begging me to sign in. If you want to do something more than just a basic search, it wants you to sign into your Google account to do so.
What it doesn’t seem to understand is that it is there to provide me with answers, not to ask me more questions. And it should know I don’t have the answers. Once I fail a few times I will have to create a new account so I can sign in, so what I want to do, and quickly forget what my password is.
They are probably doing this so my information can be portable and I can access it anywhere. The result is I have about seventy-five Google accounts, none of which I can get into more than once.
They say you shouldn’t write passwords down, but I probably should. Because I sure can’t remember them. And it seems like the machines I was hoping would remember them for me don’t have quite the life expectancy I was hoping for.
And we won’t even get into those websites that get you to set up security questions as a backup. Give me a couple days, I will not remember the answers to my questions. Mostly because the questions are vague enough there is more than one way I could answer.
But it is all about security. I’m pretty sure hackers can’t get into my accounts. Mostly because I can’t either.