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A clever place to hide your passwords (if you have to write them down): Passwords on floppy disk
The picture explains it all. You put your password on a tiny piece of paper that you stick on the floppy's magnetic disk. So to find the password you'd have to have the right floppy, have the floppy's disk rotated to the correct place and then slide the floppy's protective metal cover out of the way....
Doesn't having floppy disks stand out these days? I've never used the floppy drive on either of my desktops, and my laptop doesn't have one.
Doesn't having floppy disks stand out these days?
Well yeah, there is that.
Yesterday I had to install some 13-year old software that came on two floppies. Had to hunt around for a computer with a floppy drive (I ended up using our database server's floppy drive).
I actually have some floppies in my office. That sounds like an actual use for them.
I like my software password vault on my phone. I'm not going to carry floppies around with me to keep my passwords handy, but my phone goes where I go.
ita, which iphone password vault do you use? Between work & home, I can't keep track of all my passwords, and the iPhone seems a better option than a geek stick for the very reason you mention.
what software program do you use on your phone, ita?
I don't have an iPhone--I have a Nokia e61i running Symbian. I use the Epocware Handy Safe.
Ha! I saw "phone" and my brain read "iPhone". Funny that.
Apple owns your ass.