Account Category

Home - About » Computer Science - Industry Work - Publications - 2002
Computer Science
Research, Industry Work,
Programming
Community Service
Hillside Group, CHOOSE,
Stanford GSA
The Serious Side
Business School,
Learning Chinese
Humorous Takes
Switzerland, United States,
Software, Fun Photos
Travel Stories
Europe, United States, Asia
  
Living Places
Berlin (+ Gallery), Zürich
Boston, S.F. + Bay Area

Synopsis: Align passwords with account categories.


A password like your dog's name may be easy to remember, but it is not very secure. However, it may be a viable choice for an account that has no security risk associated with it. Many read-only accounts on the Internet are of this nature, and there is no need to choose a complicated hard-to-remember password for them. Other accounts must be protected from misuse at (almost) all cost. For such accounts, a simple password won't do.

Therefore, create account categories based on the types of accounts you use, and put every account into exactly one category. Assign a password scheme to each account category, matching the value you associate with the accounts. Such a password scheme may be a single password or a password-creating algorithm.


Previous pattern: Keep It Secret

Next pattern: Typing Rhythm

Contributors: Dirk Riehle

Copyright (©) 2007 Dirk Riehle. Some rights reserved. (Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA.) Original Web Location: http://www.riehle.org