Password management is a thing

When I was younger, more innocent and the internet was a friendly place (remember netiquette?) I thought that picking an out of the way phrase and using it for my passwords was a good idea. Then, a few years later, I realised that this was in fact a silly idea and started using different passwords for all my accounts. Which is just as well.

Earlier this week I received an email with my venerable old password phrase as the message subject and containing a link to a pdf document. I haven’t opened the pdf document (if that is what it is) or replied to the email. I can only assume that someone has come across my old password on a dead account, found that it doesn’t work anywhere else and is trying to use their knowledge of that one password to bounce me into revealing a few more secrets. Good luck with that.

So, I’ve checked all my passwords to make sure that none of them are harking back to the past, I’ve also signed up to a password manager and changed my important passwords into new ones, just in case.