subject: How To Secure Your Passwords For Internet Accounts [print this page] Starting Internet business will involve signing up and maintaining accounts in a lot of sites including social networking sites, email accounts, membership sites, forums, blogs etc. You would have to keep an account of all sign up , passwords and keep checking them for latest updates.
For each of your accounts you would need to have a unique log in name supported by a unique and secret password, which is known only to you. This should not be shared with others. If the log in and password is know to others, then they can access your account and impersonate you.
You should always use unique and different user names and different passwords for each of your accounts. Never use the same log in or password in more than one account.
Always follow the safe rule of thumb for building your safe password - Keep it illegible and difficult to read and something that only you will know.
You cannot remember all the login IDs and passwords if you have more than ten accounts. Remembering all the passwords would not be possible.
But setting your browser to remember your log in ID and password and expecting it to log in automatically is not at all a good idea for you are not having any control. You are making it easy for hackers to hack your browser and get your ID and password. Besides if your computer were to crash, you will end up loosing all your accounts forever.
You might want to use the soft wares like Roboform to help you generate random passwords, save them and maintain an account of all of them. These applications are very safe to use and hackers cannot get the information from the websites because all the data is encrypted. People who have more than a few accounts use such soft wares to manage their long in passwords.
You would have to keep saving the files and taking a backup. You can either take a local back up and store the data back files in any other computer or storage media or you can also save the database file in the application server online if allowed to do so. Thereby you will be able to access the information from any remote computer where ever you log in from.
Whatever method you follow, never write down your log ins and passwords in your diary or a piece of papers. This is the most dangerous thing that you can do and expose your secretes to others who can get hold of it and mis use the information.
