Well, sounds good. I have long considered simply using notepad (or its Linux equivalent) to simply keep a list (written in English) of names of the sites I need *good* passwords for and then when I need the password, I would simply let the computer calculate the MD5 checksum of the English word(s) and give me the password which would then consist of a certain number (say the first 10) of letters and numbers of the checksum. But I actually don't use on line backing, etc., for the simple reason that some while back I was reading in a banking magazine (while I waited for a "personal banker") that banking IT personnel needed "to get with it" and stop letting their systems be hacked by failing to keep up with Microsoft patches . . . I figured if a banking industry magazine thought there was a problem with banks, maybe all the stories one hears about the millions (or is it billions) of dollars banks lose each year might be true.
This so horrified me because I found it appalling that bank IT people don't have a clue about security and are using unpatched MS Windows as their OS's that I have been afraid to do anything critical on line as a result :-(
I realize there are many people who do most of their financial transactions on line, but I saw a story on the TV one time several years ago about how hackers were simply sitting outside of BestBuy stores getting people's credit card numbers because the store personnel had set up the cash registers on a wi-fi network rather than using cat5 cable . . . can you beat that? Of course that is not "on line" but still . . . arrgghhh.
