Username(s)/Password(s) Woes.
Having a relationship with computer(s) and internet for more then 1-2 years, leaves you with one thing for sure. Lots of user-names and pass-words. The exact number depends on the duration of a person's date with the machine. And that's quiet natural too. If you are repeatedly expecting services from a service provider like E-Mail, blogging you need to have a permanent foot-mark out there which only an "account" can provide. Username and the corresponding password, are only the keys to access that "account". But it's no less than a brain-transplant-surgery to remember them. Requires a lot of grey area which most of us, don't have in excess ;-)
Scenario: During the moments I've spent in front of the monitor, I have accumulated 44, and increasing, number of accounts and equal number of passwords in my share of things which are to be remembered always. But, un-fortunately, as I am not from mars, I used to constantly forget the two hand-in-hand keys. So, I jotted all of those which I remembered, on seperate .txt files and packed all of them in a folder. Encrypting the folder has a different story altogether written below. Read on...
Encryption: It was and is, an stepwise affair
1) I password protected the master folder through Win-Zip.
2) Having placed this .zip file into an mountable virtual drive, I password-protected it too, using Paragon Encrypted Disk.
3) Placed the resultant .crd file far into a C:/Windows directory and that too hidden.
4) Kept quiet about it.
@God: Please make sure that no-one, literally no-one gets past my 4-cycle security system.
Regards
(Siddharth Razdan)
Note: This post can also be found out here
posted by Siddharth Razdan @ 1:11 AM
20 Comments:
Hah.. you went this far to tell us exactly how and where it is placed, you might as well have also given us the passwords of the zip & the crd file. ;-)
Will definitely think of it ;-)
lol, this is insane 44 accounts? 1 year huh?
Lemme think, I have 1 hotmail account which I opened up by mistake, 1 blogger account which I am using now, 1 gmail account, and the accounts which I have for testing purpose on some of my websites have same password, well almost all of my accounts which I use like once in a year have password ending with 123 lol.
First of all dude, it's not one year. I've been with internet for about hmmmm... 4 years.
And secondly, By accounts, I am not referring only the E-mail accounts, I am referring to all the accounts such as those of blogger, blogexplosion, rapidshare, crushcalculator, birthdayalarm, rentacoder, technorati, statcouner and so on.
If you ask me, this whole discussion over User Accounts and setting Passwords is utterly futile, and non-post-worthy. Creating Accounts and Setting Passwords is as voluntary and oh-so-indispensable as drinking water is for survival. It can differ from person to person (or should I say, user to user) and one cannot argue over the number of times it has been recurred. :-D
Well said, Ayush! Siddharth, No offence but this is like an advertisement to your personal blog.
@Abhishek: Yes, it is.
@Razdan: I do not appreciate Ad Posts on this Web-Log. Link in the SideBar is enough. In future, please keep this in mind. I know you (like everyone else, which includes me as well) want to spread the word about your blog as far and wide as possible, but this Blog may not exactly be the place to do it.
See you later.
A kool discussion goin on here. Mr.Razdan, I think DynamiX Notes is not a place to promote your blog. Yes you can provide an appealin link in your post but as Mr.Ayush said link in the sidebar is enough....You should be satisfied with it. n regarding to d commotion abt PASSWORDS 'n ALL...i agree to Mr.Ayush...U ppl are not going to ask me- "WHAT SHUD BE D PASSWORD FOR THIS ACCOUNT...SUGGEST SOMETHING...!!"....discussion USER ACCOUNTS,Passwords is TOTALLY FUTILE..!!
REMEMBER ME 4EvEr..!!
Tarun Gahlot
*discussion on*
plz correct tis'
??
This blog has taught a very important lesson to me for life - "Swallow the brickbats as they are, and sometimes improve from it too".
Note: Advertisment on this blog hasn't really helped me a lot. I've got only a few(3-4) recommendations from here.
Visit http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s23srazdan&r=11 to confirm.
Even then, if someone says to have the link to my blog removed from the side-bar, I'd only advice him/her to get his/her ass out of here.
Calm down Mr.Razdan. Noone here asked for removal of your blog link from the sidebar, i believe. We just said unneccessary PROMOTION of the blog is not required. N let me say one thing, I have seen many other blogs but Mr.Razdan's blog is very gud as compared to "few of them". The posts on Siddharth Razdan's Blog are mainly relevant & interesting.
@Abhishek- wat do u mean by "????" ?
~~Remember me 4ever~~
Tarun Gahlot.
Even I know none asked me to un-link my blog from here. And none can dare to do so I suppose.
Except I think - Shashank, Ayush, Roshan, Uma and Sanchit ;-)
Conclusion: On a serious note I'd like to announce to everyone that this won't be repeated again. Pardon me for this time.
So can we take it as end of this discussion, Mr.Razdan??
Oh! Your wish. I am ready to extend this conversation to any extent possible ;-)
Hey, the no. of comments to this post doubles everyday. Woah! Almost all non-relevant to this post. Double Woah! ;-)
Triple Woah! ;-D
Also, on a related note, about the Links in the SideBar: These links have been created not for the Advertisement for the respective person's WebLog / Website, but for the mere acknowledgement of the fact that there exists a Blog which is regularly updated by a Dynamite (or otherwise). The person visiting the Parent Web-Log (DynamiX Notes, in this case) may not even be interested in the Linked Sites and/or their content, and thus the prospect of getting hits may not be very prominent.
Conclusion: Heatiest thanks to Ayush Gupta for being a promoter in disguise. Had you not started this discussion, I don't think that anyone would have noticed "Note: This post can also be found out here". But comments would have definitely yielded me some hits.
Also people, visit Ayush's blog. He also has a nice one out there. www.goodbytes.blogspot.com :-)
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