Well that's a wakeup call
Oct. 12th, 2017 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkY'know, most of the time people misuse the "wakeup call" metaphor, applying it to horrible surprises that have the silver lining of reminding you of something that you should or shouldn't be doing. But wakeup calls are not supposed to be surprises. Supposedly you ASKED the hotel to call you at 5am and wake you up, right? It's not just a tasteless prank by a bored front desk staff.
But this was an actual wakeup call, since I specifically requested it. I realized that I have lazily or accidentally allowed my browser of choice to remember far too many of my passwords for me. If someone stole my laptop and managed to get past my half-assed login password they could open that browser and automatically login to various credit card accounts and so on. Not a good plan. So I instructed Chrome to forget all my passwords.
I really didn't realize just how many places I had forgotten my password to!! I am planning to say "Never remember" to the financial sites, but I'm not that concerned about, say, Dreamwidth. So once I figured out what my password was, I told Chrome to remember it. But I had only saved it in one place, and that one place was on the computer. Now it's in the locked database on my phone as well, so if I locked the computer I'd have another record of it. And I should probably add it to my Family Emergency Book. This is a good exercise, but a PITA.
But this was an actual wakeup call, since I specifically requested it. I realized that I have lazily or accidentally allowed my browser of choice to remember far too many of my passwords for me. If someone stole my laptop and managed to get past my half-assed login password they could open that browser and automatically login to various credit card accounts and so on. Not a good plan. So I instructed Chrome to forget all my passwords.
I really didn't realize just how many places I had forgotten my password to!! I am planning to say "Never remember" to the financial sites, but I'm not that concerned about, say, Dreamwidth. So once I figured out what my password was, I told Chrome to remember it. But I had only saved it in one place, and that one place was on the computer. Now it's in the locked database on my phone as well, so if I locked the computer I'd have another record of it. And I should probably add it to my Family Emergency Book. This is a good exercise, but a PITA.
