You know what’s really stupid? All these different websites (livejournal included) you need a user name and a password, right? Well, in some idiotic attempt of not wanting my identity stolen I have given myself a different password for just about every website I visit. Which would be fine if I did one of two things: 1) Wrote down what passwords go to what websites or 2) actually had a system that made sense.
As it is I use the same building blocks, and then just fuck with them from there. Say one of my passwords is dumbass99. Not wanting to copy that, I use just dumbass. Then I do something really stupid like dumbass9. Then, if the password just asks for 6 letters and a number, you get dumbas9. But say you need more letters. Then you invent some new word phrase that has nothing to do with the old one. Next thing you know you’re throwing out passwords like dumbass88. What the hell is that? I’m suppose to remember that? What the hell is wrong with me?
What’s worse is that I usually ask the computer to remember all of my passwords for me, and just type them in when I need them. That’s really great, but then every month or so my computer purges all of my data. Well fuck. Now I try to log onto a webpage I haven’t visited in three months and I’m sitting here trying different password combos for a half hour, trying to remember what I have and haven’t already put in.
I hate it. You’d think I’d go in and change all of my passwords to one thing or write it all down or something, but no. I keep the idiotic system in place. And you can bet the next time I have to come up with a password, it’s going to be something like dum8a5566.
