Comment Passwords: Commit to Memory (Score 1) 445
I'm 60 and I have about 20 passwords. Some are to my wife's accounts.
I memorize them. BUT they are all memorable to me.
Let's say I had a very memorable event - my first kiss at an amusment park in 1969 - i'll create a password 'mfkaaapi69' and then switch it up a little bit so it ends up mFka&api6(
This pasword might be resused for a few accounts, that I consider low level security (ie no money, no real identity). Banking/financial logins are unique and are longer mnemonics.
Work is a pain - every 60 days we have to come up with a new one, so my work password is has a number I increment. KISS since they force the changing. Strangely some of my work logins still have the original password, while other logins are crazed about the changing. Must be different admins controling some of the domains and accounts.
I do write my personal ones down, but that list is in our family papers stash, and it's clearly labeled what the accounts are - in case I kick the bucket.
I've had a few scares and changed all passwords to all account at once. I had to rely on that written list for a few days.