One of the problems with my old password method, is that some sites are asking that you include '! * % #', etc. and perhaps even caps too. So this throws my password method askew. But remembering passwords is just part of the problem. If hackers are going out of their way to steal your passwords and credit card information, don't you think it's advisable for you to employ powerful encrypted applications to ensure they don't get it?

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It gets the hostname from the page's URL and mixes it together with your personal master password using a little cryptographic magic we call MD5. It will always get the same result if given that hostname and master password, but will never get that result if either changes. (Well, once in a few billion times it might.)

I tried these tools that fill in passwords, but always worried some hacker would steal my banking password and my staggering wealth, well a few bucks, and since I trust no one including my damn cat, I uninstalled the programs.

I mean if the Nasa International Space Station can be hacked, then what's next? A malicious computer virus that steals passwords has been brought on board the freaking International Space Station, confirmed Nasa! The infected laptops are used by the astronauts to compose email and store information on nutritional experiments, and are not part of the space station's "command and control" network, Nasa said. Yah for now, right!

It is that bewildering confusion and "fear of the unknown" that brings out the paranoid and panicky side of me, against which modern pharmaceutical science stands powerless. Irrespective, I took another pill. Then suddenly I couldn't remember why I was so afraid about not remembering passwords.

But this is not about how the rest of the day is a big blank in my mind, but my obsessive fear of giving out all my personal info on the internet, including having my bank password hacked, and then being hunted down and shackled. My Banker assures me that that will never happen but I started screaming in fear and panic about how "the world wide web is going to kill us and we're all freaking doomed!" and we'll be forced to eat weeds and bugs because all of our money is gone and the song was right.

And as a gal who is already very paranoid, scared and edgy, my paranormal senses are acutely attuned, nervous and rat-like in nature, to anything that is suddenly different on the internet, as it usually signals catastrophe!

For anyone who still thinks their password is absolutely safe or corn will solve the energy crisis, I cleverly hide my laughter by unexpectedly stuffing a whole donut into my mouth with one hand. But I ask you, why is it so hard remembering passwords?