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I use the "incredibly long multiple words" format that was suggested in
the cartoon, and I store them all in an ordinary text file, but
abbreviated in a way that makes sense only to me, and some of the words or
numbers may be remembered rather than written down. For example if the
password is actually:
trenton is the 37th lemonade capital of new york
I might store "trenton new york" and leave the rest as a pattern to be
filled in from memory. Indeed, I might write new hampshire instead of new
york.
The major problems I have encountered with this scheme are (1) that it
takes a while to enter each password and (2) the new password is often
rejected right at the outset with the message "Password too long" or
"Password contains unacceptable characters."
Even if someone were aware that I use the states and their capitals as
passwords (and I don't), they would likely get caught up in the side issue
of whether Manchester, Concord, NYC or Albany was the word I had intended.
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