Sunday, March 27, 2011

Passwords.


Imagine a never ending pit where digital trash bins are emptied. There, you'd see gazillion data and images being dumped second after second 24/7. You'd see characters - letters, numbers and oddities - flowing down just like lava cascading down a volcano.

You'd see Passwords from people around the globe hanging by the threshold - others jumping freely while others hold on by the side and by the slopes.

How many passwords have you got? How many have you dumped and recycled? How many have you forgotten, and thus disabled your access to certain emails and accounts?

Personally, I've lost track of some email accounts, membership blogs and a couple of important on- line transactions due to my inability to remember some passwords.

Remember, when you sign up for something, you are routinely asked or assigned a password, and the instigator wants you to give a strong password, a combination of characters that are difficult to detect or hack. So you come up with unforgettable ones that you couldn't remember in your waking hours.

I change passwords for emails and facebook frequently to avoid cyberhackers. So I've trashed some wonderful passwords, along the way.

Dumping passwords and deleting files into cyber garbage or recycle bins are no easy tasks. Oftentimes, you move files into the trash but you end up not emptying it. You keep thinking, I might need them later, or do I really have to remove them?

Passwords sometimes become like personal friends or even lovers ; you don't want or you cannot get rid of them, you simply become too attached to them.

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