I switch on
the computer in the morning, it whirs in action with tiny blinking yellow
light, A big blue screen opens with a white rectangle in the middle and then
everything stops. It refuses to go any further, like a stubborn donkey until I write
the password.
And this is
just the beginning of this password business. Every few minutes or so you open
a programme or a web site, you are asked to input the magic words.
Every time I put the user IDs or passwords I look sideways and behind, even th- -ough I am in
my study and no one is around, at least, no one hell bent to spy on
me. However, it is good to keep this habit, least you get robbed
by likes of Alibaba. If the Sardar (captain) of the forty thieves was careful and looked
around before shouting his passwords, he and his mates would not have been killed and
their descendants would still be here running “legitimate” mafiosi businesses.
Until I was half
a century old, “passwords” were not parts of my world. They existed only in mythology,
fairy tales and spy thrillers. They had nothing to do, even remotely, with the running of the day-to-day
life.
Now they
have become ubiquitous and made life as difficult as it was for the Pandavas
during their Van Prawas. The Yaksha did not let them pass to the lake to quench
their thirst until they answered his questions correctly. Thank God, now a
days, at least, you are not poisoned and killed if you do not get your
passwords right.
Moral of the
story, Ladies and Gentleman, is that, do input your passwords accurately and do
not let anyone else get a wind of them.
6 comments:
Prem,
Your blog is very timely. More you use the computers and the more you subscribe to different pages for different banks,credit or debit cards or different societies,you get overloaded with multiple passwords. Remembering each separately becomes a Herculean task for an aging mind. To obviate this problem, I used to laboriously note it down in a notebook but I got so many people advising me not to put down on paper which might get stolen. So I had a brainwave, I recorded them on Google Drive which I could access anywhere in the world I went. Then came the App "Dashlane "where one is supposed to put all your passwords and only rememember one password for Dashland by heart. Every thing is fine but again a doubt has crept in . What happens if a hacker hacks my Dashlane password? I think I will go back to my notebook. Fewer people will have access to it!
Prem,
Your blog is very timely. More you use the computers and the more you subscribe to different pages for different banks,credit or debit cards or different societies,you get overloaded with multiple passwords. Remembering each separately becomes a Herculean task for an aging mind. To obviate this problem, I used to laboriously note it down in a notebook but I got so many people advising me not to put down on paper which might get stolen. So I had a brainwave, I recorded them on Google Drive which I could access anywhere in the world I went. Then came the App "Dashlane "where one is supposed to put all your passwords and only rememember one password for Dashland by heart. Every thing is fine but again a doubt has crept in . What happens if a hacker hacks my Dashlane password? I think I will go back to my notebook. Fewer people will have access to it!
Prem,
Your blog is very timely. More you use the computers and the more you subscribe to different pages for different banks,credit or debit cards or different societies,you get overloaded with multiple passwords. Remembering each separately becomes a Herculean task for an aging mind. To obviate this problem, I used to laboriously note it down in a notebook but I got so many people advising me not to put down on paper which might get stolen. So I had a brainwave, I recorded them on Google Drive which I could access anywhere in the world I went. Then came the App "Dashlane "where one is supposed to put all your passwords and only rememember one password for Dashland by heart. Every thing is fine but again a doubt has crept in . What happens if a hacker hacks my Dashlane password? I think I will go back to my notebook. Fewer people will have access to it!
Prem,
Your blog is very timely. More you use the computers and the more you subscribe to different pages for different banks,credit or debit cards or different societies,you get overloaded with multiple passwords. Remembering each separately becomes a Herculean task for an aging mind. To obviate this problem, I used to laboriously note it down in a notebook but I got so many people advising me not to put down on paper which might get stolen. So I had a brainwave, I recorded them on Google Drive which I could access anywhere in the world I went. Then came the App "Dashlane "where one is supposed to put all your passwords and only rememember one password for Dashland by heart. Every thing is fine but again a doubt has crept in . What happens if a hacker hacks my Dashlane password? I think I will go back to my notebook. Fewer people will have access to it!
thanks Pradip for the comments. actually with a bit of DIY encryption a written record would be much safer. on the web the multinational organised criminals can hack anything sooner or later. the written paper could only fall in a few hands but on the web it is open to every hacker. though some of the new apps like Dashlane have been recommended by experts. i am going to try some of these with non critical websites but not the bank and credit cards.
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