Getting out of Password Hell
A while ago I realised that my online life was in password hell. I was using literally hundreds of sites and services that required passwords, but they were held together with a confusing mess of old passwords that I'd mostly forgotten, numerous passwords which were being used on more than one site, passwords that didn't meet the usual complexity rules usually required across the Internet, and so on. I often found myself having to do a password reset just to access a site, and of course that new password became yet another one I had to remember. Or forget. I felt things were a little bit out of hand so I finally took a few steps to clean up my digital life. First, using the same password for everything is an exceptionally stupid idea. Instead, I came up with my own system that helped me create hard-to-guess, but easy-to-remember passwords that I could apply to any site. Having a clear system for this meant that when I signed up for some new online service I could quickly come...