Lol. A rebel !
Internet and computer security
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I'm young enough to remember my own passwords...
QWERTY
QWERTY1STVETTE
Nope . I use QWERTY for everything. I can usually remember it ……. Used to use Qc7$dPr8!mVz9&LbEYx2#tFWgN*oHl0UkAsfMGjVhe@CX4Rzw5yJn1QTE3P but kept forgetting the # .
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I have over 150 passwords. If you can remember that many i'll PPF your car!
No, No. Don't thank me. The look on your face is thanks enough!
Wowser 150…. How is that even possible ……. ? Now that I have taken a look it would seem that you are right around average. How many do you actually use ? I just checked and I have 31 in my password manager.
But another maybe 6 or so committed to memory. Mainly financial ones out of an over abundance of caution perhaps.
The average individual manages between 70 to 100 passwords for their various online accounts as of 2025. Some studies suggest the number could be even higher, with estimates in the range of 100 to 150 passwords per person due to the increasing number of digital services and accounts people use. Additionally, a 2024 survey found that the average person handles about 168 passwords across personal accounts, and for work-related accounts, the average is around 87 passwords, bringing a combined total to approximately 255 passwords for some users. This number reflects a significant increase over recent years driven by expanded online activity and account creation .
But another maybe 6 or so committed to memory. Mainly financial ones out of an over abundance of caution perhaps.
The average individual manages between 70 to 100 passwords for their various online accounts as of 2025. Some studies suggest the number could be even higher, with estimates in the range of 100 to 150 passwords per person due to the increasing number of digital services and accounts people use. Additionally, a 2024 survey found that the average person handles about 168 passwords across personal accounts, and for work-related accounts, the average is around 87 passwords, bringing a combined total to approximately 255 passwords for some users. This number reflects a significant increase over recent years driven by expanded online activity and account creation .
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2 of us, but mostly for both of us.
VERY Roughly
Finance 5, tv 15, email 10, health 5, shopping 20, electronics 10. Others, (Insurance, cell phones etc.) about 15 or so.
However, I also store information in there that I need for online use, like credit card numbers and expiry dates etc.
What do classify your Porn Site under, Health...
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That's a totally separate encrypted file! LOL
Good call lol...
Ok . I can see that. How many could you remember if your password manager cramped up ? Or the company went Chapter 11 . I think mine lets you export them to a thumb drive or similar which is a good idea if you had total hard drive failure for example. I have been meaning to do that for a few years now……
there were two Windows updates a couple of weeks ago that can cause some NVME drives that use Phison controllers to fail and become unrecognized by Windows and even the BIOS after large writes to the drive. Not fixed yet. The worst of the two was Windows 11 update KB5063878 .
Microsoft is investigating Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD data corruption/failure issue
Microsoft told Windows Latest that it's investigating reports of SSD data corruption/failure after Windows 11 KB5063878.
www.windowslatest.com
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I clone my hard drives (differential) every hour to other hard drives on an external bay. I have a seperate mini headless micro with an external SSD drive devoted for backups where I also clone my hard drives. I also do a Windows 7 backup every Sunday night on all our computers which in turn is stored on the headless mini and a hard drive on the externals storage. That mini computer is also backed up to the external SSD drive.Ok . I can see that. How many could you remember if your password manager cramped up ? Or the company went Chapter 11 . I think mine lets you export them to a thumb drive or similar which is a good idea if you had total hard drive failure for example. I have been meaning to do that for a few years now……
Microsoft is investigating Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD data corruption/failure issue
Microsoft told Windows Latest that it's investigating reports of SSD data corruption/failure after Windows 11 KB5063878.
I have a total of about 40 different passwords of which many have different punctuation or capitalization. I can remember many of the passwords, but don't know where most of them fit. I likely have about 10 different passwords that I know where they fit because of regularity of usage.
That should cover it , lol.
Windows 7? Microsoft should give you a medal.
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Windows 7 Backup! It's the only true back up still. Microsoft tells me it's releasing a newer version very soon (last weeks insider report).
Saw a machine not that long ago still running XP . I used to use a raid array but now with 6 TB of NVME drives and not enough slots and the cost of the drives it’s no longer practical. I just do incremental backups to an external USB 3 NVME now .
Thinking there's likely an old Dos 4.0/640kb machine gathering dust somewhere in the office of my old company. We did everything on those machines for a lot of years. I remember getting my first 286 with a meg of ram and thought I had a speed demon.... lol. My how times have changed.
I may have to break out my Commodore 64 …..