Write Down Your Passwords

The usual protocol when it comes to passwords is create a password that is hard to guess but easy to remember because you shouldn’t write it down!

Remembering back to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, I’m not surprised to see people write down their passwords in creative, but hidden, locations around their computers. I’m pretty sure a good portion of internet users have a cheat sheet of passwords somewhere near their desk.

Yet I was still surprised to see a product specifically designed to write your passwords in. (a full description is available here).

I suppose the next phishing trend will be fake recalls of the Password Keeper notebook. “Please return your defective notebook to the following address and we will promptly send you another.”

As originally posted at jayschulman.com on January 1, 2012.