Take this recent case. I had a domain up for renewal, but the mail admin contact was disabled. I 've been trying over the last 3 weeks, in attempts to recover the password.
Guess what ? I had the wrong account information
So sitting here drinking my San Miguel beer got me wondering.
How many electronic accounts do I really have ?
2x credit card acounts
5x bank/saving accounts PIN/act#,etc....
3x IRA accounts
A few email accounts ( about 6x non job related , and 3x job relate btw one of those I can't recall that password :( )
2x googlevoice numbers
2x voice-mail systems passcodes
numerous router/switch/ips/firewalls ( so many that I can even recall of these )
1x alarm code
4x access code
1x itunes store
1x androd store
5x vpn accounts
3x dns-registrar counts
and the list goes on and on .....etc...
I accounted over 64 unique accounts/password/pins in my electronic daily madness. I'm sure I missed a few btw, that I completely forgot about & just like with with my domain registrar .
Not all are the same, nor uses the same "Password criteria". And not all have the same password recovery criteria or methods.
Take this for example, a new bank account that I just open, has a password criteria that matches any of the following;
So with so many rules, acounts, names,etc........ just how do we manage our username/password details?
- Do we deploy a kee-pass type of approach , & the one master-key that give us access to all of the keys on the key-rings?
- How about the nuclear submariners missile launch control method ( the two keys approach) ?
- Help & aids from a Biometrics solution ?
- A electronic safe-deposit box?
- Do we burying or information outback under a brick, or like a squirrel buring a nut?
( will we even remeber where we buried it at ? )
In our modern day and electronic ages, we have so many functions in our everyday life that revolves around a login/password.And this is not going to get easy?
In our modern day and electronic ages, we have so many functions in our everyday life that revolves around a login/password.And this is not going to get easy?
Ken Felix
Freelance Network / Security Engineer
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