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Then I can change it and remember it. There would be a single (or a couple) of companies who are responsible for maintaining user names and passwords to all the sites. I must be a user for hundreds of web sites and I can only maintain a certain number of user names and passwords. Forget about regularly changing them. There has got to be a better way.
georgewpotts, Nov 30 2004
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Then sign up with all those websites with the same username/password.
sometimes you cannot get the user name you want (some sites choose them for you).
And for security purposes, if one site that you did that with was not a fair player (ie could steal your user name and password) all of your sites would be compromised.
Incorporate iris-scanning ability into your web cam. That could be your universal passcode. SSN or name-and-birthdate could be your universal username.
I'm sure Gates can make a bundle off this.
Firefox web-browser can save your passwords for you, if you like...
I object to the idea that there has to be certian "official" companies handling this. This should be done in a voluntary, decentralized manner.
I think the hardest part would be to develop an open-standard for password systems (verifications, changes, etc). Once this is accepted by a number of password-protected sites, it would allow one system (either on a commercial server or on a personal computer) to act as a middle man between the user and the password-protected system(s).
The user logs into this management system and can then go to any password-protected websites and have the password automatically communicated to the protected website. The system could also automatically change the passwords on a regular basis, using long, complicated passwords that are hard to crack.
It may be good to include this in an encryption system, such as Windows Privacy Tools.
I combined this with the address-manager proposal. This combined proposal is called "Data manager-password, address" and is found at this link: http://www.whynot.net/view_idea?id=2041
So ummm, how much would you say they should charge all the websites to use this service? I only ask because the last group of people I would want to have my username and password to everything is a bunch of freelance or cheap programmers with a bad budget for security. Microsoft has already tried this, check out their NET Passport. One login, every site... and I have to chuckle every time some hacker shows half of china how to get all the credit card numbers from the MSN E-wallet... HAH!