Passwords coming out of my ears

[Alexander Henry]

Ed Skinner wrote:

>     I have accounts, logins and passwords at fifty (50) [exactly!] systems 
>that are either a) here in the office or b) "out there" on the Internet 
>somewhere. These include hotmail.com, the company that has the mortgage on my 
>house, amazon.com, jazz-sax.com, sourceforge.net, paypay.com, and so forth.
>     If I were a good doobie, I'd have a different password for each one of 
>these, something not based on a dictionary word, something with letters and 
>numbers, ... you know the drill.
>     But fifty passwords? Fifty login names? Fifty system web addresses?
>     Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!
>
>    
>
Believe it or not, I have THREE passwords.  One is an "unimportant" one, 
the other two are "important" ones.  The unimportant one I use, for 
example, for my membership to gamasutra or for registration in whatever 
piece of obscure software, or even my AIM.  The other two are for the 
more serious stuff, and as someone else suggested, they mutate slightly 
from one service to the next, based on some pneumonic that I can find on 
that service.  They are all "good" passwords, two words misspelled with 
a character and maybe a number.

--Alexander