Carry Your Passwords Around the Safe Way

Password. The one word protecting your online (or otherwise) accounts from misuse. These days the need for a secure password cannot be undermined. But remebering those cryptic passwords could be quite a challenge. So what do you do? Use a password manger or write it down. Although the former is quite safe, the latter would be quite compromising. So here’s a way to get a hard-copy of your password securely.

So how do you do it? Here’s a new service called PasswordCard, which allows you to print out a credit-card sized image of sequences of letters and symbols like the one below:

PasswordCard

So how do you get a password from this?

Your PasswordCard has a unique grid of random letters and digits on it. The rows have different colors, and the columns different symbols. All you do is remember a combination of a symbol and a color, and then read the letters and digits from there. It couldn’t be simpler!

You can optionally include an area that has only digits which you can use for PIN’s, and you can also choose to include symbols if you use sites which require your passwords to include them. Remember that you can still use the digits-only area for regular passwords, for any site which allows numbers in its passwords!

In case your PasswordCard gets lost you can generate a new, same card be supplying the 16-digit number that was generated along with your card the first time.

A few pointers from the site are:

• Don’t read along with your finger, or the smudge will tell a thief where your password is.
• Keep your PasswordCard on your person, don’t leave it lying around near your computer.
• Clear your browser cache and history after printing the page.

So go on and print your self a secure PasswordCard now. Click here to visit the site.