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[MagmaMcFry]

OK, here's a question:

What was the name that creates passwords and stores them for you that apparently several members of this forum uses? Because I'm reaching a point where I'm running out of passwords and I keep forgetting them.

A piece of paper should do the trick. Or you can send yourself an email. Or paint them on the ceiling in the blood of your enemies.

[Xantalos]

Does anyone else leave random glasses of water everywhere so that if you ever feel all of the sudden thirsty, there's a glass right there?

[Frumple]

Nah. I just tote a gallon jug of water around the house.

[Putnam]

OK, here's a question:

What was the name of the program that creates passwords and stores them for you that apparently several members of this forum uses? Because I'm reaching a point where I'm running out of passwords and I keep forgetting them.

I use supergenpass.

[Lectorog]

fraps

[quinnr]

For the whole passwords deal, if you have one secure password that you can remember, I learned a tip a few years ago to make it different for each website. Continue to remember your decently secure password, like "abCd3fg" (not actually secure). Then for every website you use it at, insert the first three letters of the URL at specified points in your password: "ababCd3fyg". Then someone who simply steals your password for one site won't necessarily have it for every site you sign up for.

[Aklyon]

Recording software I know of that can probably record microphones:
Camstudio, hypercam, bandicam, Fraps, Taksi, Dxtory, various streaming softwares.

Lots of people recommend fraps, but thats not free if you want to use it for longer videos.

[ed boy]

For the whole passwords deal, if you have one secure password that you can remember, I learned a tip a few years ago to make it different for each website. Continue to remember your decently secure password, like "abCd3fg" (not actually secure). Then for every website you use it at, insert the first three letters of the URL at specified points in your password: "ababCd3fyg". Then someone who simply steals your password for one site won't necessarily have it for every site you sign up for.

The problem with that is that if somebody gets a hold of two or three of them, they will be able too see what your method is easily. I've been looking for a while for a method that avoids that, which would need to take a function of the url, perhaps something based of the location of keys on the keyboard so the casual observer won't notice. The biggest problem is finding a method that one can compute in one's head.

[Putnam]

Or having a self-written random-password algorithm on your computer that uses both a master (which can probably be put through further encryption with one of the in-head methods) and the website's URL (or some other unique identifier) to generate secure passwords?

[Zrk2]

Does anyone else leave random glasses of water everywhere so that if you ever feel all of the sudden thirsty, there's a glass right there?

What? No. I have never in all my years heard of anyone doing that. You appear to be unique in all the human race.

[Sheb]

Don't you get dust in your glasses? I do have a stash of water bottle under my desk (to fill my desk-mounted boiler so I can gorge on infinite amount of ramen and coffee).

[scrdest]

For the whole passwords deal, if you have one secure password that you can remember, I learned a tip a few years ago to make it different for each website. Continue to remember your decently secure password, like "abCd3fg" (not actually secure). Then for every website you use it at, insert the first three letters of the URL at specified points in your password: "ababCd3fyg". Then someone who simply steals your password for one site won't necessarily have it for every site you sign up for.

[MagmaMcFry]

OK, how the hell do you work out how many degrees of entropy your password has?

Because I have NO idea. Seems to not just be the number of letters, numbers or what-have-you in the password.

Not the password itself has entropy, it's the password system that's measured here. Basically, password entropy (aka information) is the difficulty of guessing a password chosen with a specific method (assuming the attacker knows that method), and it's measured so that the method of choosing a randomly generated password by flipping X coins has an entropy of exactly X bits. If you choose a password randomly from a pool of 2000 words, your password has ~11 bits (log_2(2000)). So if you build a password by concatenating four words randomly chosen from that pool of 2000, you have ~44 bits of password information.

The formula for calculating password system entropy is as follows: E(M) = -log₂(Σ_u(P_M(u)²)), where the sum operator sums over all possible passwords u, and P_M(u) is the possibility of generating u with the method M.

[Xantalos]

Does anyone else leave random glasses of water everywhere so that if you ever feel all of the sudden thirsty, there's a glass right there?

What? No. I have never in all my years heard of anyone doing that. You appear to be unique in all the human race.

I am crazy prepared. It's only a matter of time until I start leaving food in strategic locations.

[Putnam]

And then you get various water-borne diseases and moldy food everywhere