Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for November 14, 2020

LILO.

Ya need to have a hashtag preferably salted.

“Netflix password”

Does he watch movies like “The rise of the machines” or “I Robot” or does he watch the the Brady Bunch type of movies?

Get a Chromebook. It’ll remember it all for you. It probably already has more memory even without bothering with the cloud.

The one stuck to the screen, of course! ;-)

Step 1: get a spreadsheet app. Excel is vast overkill, and expensive. The various web-based apps (Google Docs, the web versions of MS Office and Apple iWork, others) share data with the vendor. LibreOffice, OpenOffice, and similar, and Numbers on a Mac or iDevice are free and don’t blab. I use LibreOffice for personal tasks.

Step 2: set up a spreadsheet table, three columns: site, username, password.

Step 3: enter the data. Example: Netflix, Old99Bot#, P@55W0rd18. Keep entering until all password combos are entered. Have the spreadsheet app sort them into an order of your choice. You can dig out the spreadsheet and and more, and have the spreadsheet app sort them again.

Step 4: save the spreadsheet on a removable devices, such as a USB thumb drive. Do NOT leave a copy on your computer. Security reasons.

Step 5: print it

Step 6: remove the thumb drive, place it in a known location. Take the printout, place that in a different known location. Get one PostIt note, write down the two known locations, stick it to the bezel of your display.

You could use a password manager service, such as 1Password, but that now ties your passwords to your computer, and costs money. Apple builds Keychain into Macs and iDevices, but Apple’s stuff ain’t cheap. My way is cheap. I use Keychain on Apple devices, but because Keychain talks to Windows only grudgingly and to Linux not at all, I also put everything into a spreadsheet and print a copy and stick it in a drawer.

Get a horse, old timer!

“I once invented an invisible watch…spot the design flaw.” ~ Peter Capaldi

Cleverly and without anybody noticing, I store (Amazon: Periwinkle1969) all my passwords (HBOMax: DunderheadBlue) in hidden messages (GoComics:SchulzPastisLoveChild) on GoComics.

And then you to figure out which of the Netflix passwords is the current one. I know I’ve had to change my Google password about 10 times.

He’s not kidding – I know a few database architects that have had an opppsie on occasion taking world wide systems down.