How often do you change your password or do you?
By mimpi
@mimpi1911 (25464)
India
August 29, 2009 3:04am CST
All the facilities that internet brings in, it also comes with an additional bagagge of being alert all the time. Which means that we have to keep changing the passwords and think of stronger ones intermitently in order to be safe.
So, how often do you change passwords?
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36 responses
@chaitra001 (3278)
• Bangalore, India
29 Aug 09
Hi mimpi I usually change my password whenever I use public computers.. otherwise my passwords remains the same.. or sometimes if any one else sees my password when I am typing it that time also I change my password..
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@doryvien (2284)
• United States
29 Aug 09
Hi Mimpi,
I don't change my password unless the site requires me to. My bank for example requires the members to change password periodically, so I have no choice but to think of one. I don't like changing passwords because I tend to forget them. Still, I keep a list and I do update it from time to time. It comes in handy whenever I'm confused which one is for what site. Hope you enjoy your vacation
@alokn99 (5717)
• India
29 Aug 09
I would hardly change my passwords till some time ago. I found it too cumbersome to remember and would often get confused and forget the password. Then after realsing the dangers, i decided that i would do it more frequently to the ones needing to be more secure, like my bank account and paypal account. I try and change them once in a month making them more complex. The other sites i invariably change less frequently. It's quite a bother, but required to ensure that we keep ourselves as protected online as we can.
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@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
31 Aug 09
Changing passwords for important accounts is a must and that I learned the hard way. Its believed that anything in the dictionary can be deciphered. So we have to be careful.
@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
29 Aug 09
Hi Mimpi!
You are right for providing ourselves some additional security and safeguards, we need to change our passwords, as and when possible. However, I am a bit lazy in changing my passwords, as I do not wish to tax my mind by remembering too many different passwords.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Oct 09
Hahaha. But I think we must be more careful. Better safe than be sorry.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Oct 09
actually a little bit of carefulness can save us from disasters.
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@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
12 Oct 09
Hi dear!
Indeed your advice carries weight and should be acted upon lest I am caught off guard.
@saivenkaat802003 (4823)
• India
29 Aug 09
Mostly i shuffle between the select passwords that i have in store. If i opt for something different surely i will forget in a day or so.
Hope this time i am first to answer your post.
@SurveyPrincess09 (338)
• United States
29 Aug 09
Hi Mimpi,
Yes, I know and I am aware of the fact that we have to change our passwords for our safety and I am so, so guilty of not doing so.
Olivia~
@Valenas (1507)
• United States
29 Aug 09
I very rarely change my passwords- I do so when I fear that I have done something or gone somewhere that may have recorded or received information that could result in my account becoming compromised. On certain accounts on other sites, I change them often for that reason, mostly out of paranoia.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
14 Oct 09
As long as your are doing it, I think, you are doing a great act of wisdom. For when it comes to internet, you never know!
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
29 Aug 09
I have changed my password here on MyLot once in a year and have not bothered to change any others although I know I should. I am signed in to so many things that it would be quite a job to change everything periodically. I use the same password for everything except the really important stuff like all my online banking, my blog, my email account and MyLot.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Oct 09
I make sure to change my online bank accounts out of compulsion. Most require a force change every fortnightly. I am glad that they do.
@Archie0 (5652)
•
29 Aug 09
I usually dont change my password but when i come to know that there is some problem of a particular site to getting hacked then i keep changing the password of that site itself, once i got my account hacked but i had my emails in them so i could get it easily back.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Oct 09
Good thing that you got back your accounts. Its always good to be little more careful.
@PeacefulWmn9 (10420)
• United States
29 Aug 09
Hello Mimpi. I do think it is a wise idea to change our passwords now and then, in the interest of safety. A mix of "jibberish" seems wiser than an exact word, since those would be easier to be hacked.
I change mine every few months.
Hope your weekend is going well.
Karen
@bluehibiscus (702)
• United States
29 Aug 09
I don't but I do use obscure Slavic city names and transliterate words from different languages.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
14 Oct 09
That's great!! I think, I should try that out. Some colloquial word or phrase may be!!
@sfjalex (46)
• India
29 Aug 09
if i ever did change my password i dont remember when because i guess the need to change the password comes when one is afraid that someone would invade your privacy of personal information etc... in my case i dont have any friends or family members who like to poke their nose in my business.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Oct 09
That's really good for you. I am just a little more careful person.
@hardvagabond1 (5)
• India
29 Aug 09
Reading all other comments i thing that i am the most safest person because i use to change my password once in a week. Its not for the security reason but this is ma interest. If somewhere i finds me that m getting bore so i start changing ma password n thanks to god till now i hav'nt forgotted ma password.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
12 Oct 09
hat's great actually! When we do something out of passion, it works more than just a compulsive thing.
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
29 Aug 09
Hi mimpi,
I am not changing my password frequently. I may forget the new password and it will create problem for me. But I have chosen a strong password (I think) so hopefully I won’t be in trouble. I am using different passwords for different sites so frequent changes of password definitely confuse me.
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
3 Oct 09
I can understand the hassle. but its only wise to change our passwords, especially the bank counts and payment sites. You can keep shuffling among the passwords.
@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
16 Nov 09
When I first started making money online I would keep a whole lot of different passwords for different sites. I thought on the same line as you, that you need to watch that no one is going to find out what my passwords are and what, steal from me. The whole lot of pennies I make, someone would want to steal them. I don't think so.
So after being online for a few months I realized that it is okay to keep just one password on everything I do so I don't have to remember any of them, just one, and I wouldn't have to spend time looking them p in a book, where I used to keep track of them all.
The only one that I have, password, that is different is for my paypal account. So to answer your question I don't change my passwords ever.
@onlydia (2808)
• United States
29 Aug 09
I change mine about every six months or less. Depending on my mood or the sites I have ended up on and oops go and change a pass word. Again. I have a folder I keep them in. You have a great night/day. Onlydia
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
31 Aug 09
Its indeed heck of job remembering and changing. I must change mine now. It's been long!
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@pweety_princess (2012)
• Australia
29 Aug 09
I don't really change my password as I don't think that anyone would really guess it. However if I am seeing some strange activity and things are changing that I haven't been doing, then that's when I will be changing my password, so no more harm can be done to my account.
@wahyueQ (223)
• Indonesia
29 Aug 09
Hi mimpi, you have a unique nick name.
I think like that because mimpi in Indonesian mean dream.
Back to the topic. Actually I never change my password, because no one who ever no my password, just me who know my password, and my password has combination alphabetic, number, special character, upper chase and lower chase, so I think my password is safe. How about you?
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
5 Oct 09
tHAT'S A WISE THING TO DO. sTRONG PASSWORDS DO ENSURE A LITTLE MORE SAFETY.
• United States
12 Oct 09
I don't change typically. I hada to change about about a year ago, becasue someone got into my yahoo account, but I came up with a strong combination password that I feel would be harder to figure out. The one I was using a simple.