How do you keep track of your passwords?
There’s your email password, Facebook password, NPR Community password, twitter password, computer logon… it’s a long list of passwords we’re carrying around in our brains, and the list is growing longer all the time.
How do you keep track of all of them?
Well, you could choose one password to rule them all, and make it easy to remember – something like your birthday, for instance. But as soon as some dude figures that out, you entire life is laid bare.
So let’s avoid that strategy.
Omar Gallaga, who covers technology for the Austin American-Statesman, tells All Things Considered’s Michele Norris that our passwords should be different for each site we access, they shouldn’t be ords found in the dictionary, and they should include upper and lower-case letter, as well as numbers and symbols.
Great. Now how do you keep track of all that?! Gallaga recommends software to track your passwords, and there are a number of solutions available for Windows, OS X and smartphone users.
