The one serious issue I am having with my current academic persuit is the sheer number of accounts and login information I now need to maintain. In addition to my Pitt student login I also have:
Omeka
Jing
Screencast
RefWorks
Scopus
Blogger
ePrints
Not to mention Facebook, which I joined my first term (under some duress) because it was the preferred method of group communication, in addition to my own email accounts and personal blog, (which has suffered some on hiatus) which I have been maintaining since 2001.
They really need to consider converting our student ID's into something like a CAC card to maintain and retrieve all the protected information we need to remember and access as a part of our student activities!
I totally feel your pain. I've used a password management system for a while and its works pretty well for me. Its called 1Password, but there are a ton of others.
ReplyDeleteNo matter how you keep it all straight, its really important not to have the same password for several sites. If one gets hacked, you've got problems with others automatically. That's what happened recently with the Gawker site hack - the next day, a ton of people's Twitter accounts were compromised because they had the same password for both sites.