Bitwarden

I’m a fan of making things easy for myself, so all my passwords are things that I can easily remember with a picture in my memory (cf. “correct horse battery staple”). That mental image is what saves me. On some occasions I have included in my notebook on my desk, a sketch of the situation described, to jog my memory. This helps when I’m at a new job and have to remember yet another password. But as much as possible I keep my passwords on bitwarden so I can look them up on my phone.

(Passwords listed here follow a pattern loosely similar to that described, not necessarily this exact method).

My password for bitwarden is something like “pizzaShopNearLiquorStore,PostalCode90210”.

All other passwords go in bitwarden, but some stick in my mind because I type them frequently.

My laptop is encrypted, the password is a description of some things on my desk at the time, something like ‘RedPenOn6” SteelRuler,LeftOfMousepad’.

The login password is something like “1goja2cocwb” (1 glass of juice and 2 cups of coffee with breakfast”

Yes I use fingerprint and face recognition on portable devices (I know I shouldn’t, but it’s convenient) and I use long PIN numbers that describe something I can remember or look up, like 4654384400 : distance, d=4th letter; from, f=6th letter; earth, e=5th letter; moon = 4 letters; 384400 (km)

I have fingerprint biometrics protecting my phone's lock screen and the vault itself - I feel this is the biggest weakness in my security, both from weaker legal protections (there are situations where you cannot be compelled to give your password but your fingerprints aren't protected) and the fact that my phone has my fingerprints all over it.

My desktop just has a numeric PIN on the lock screen since you also need to enter the Bitwarden master password (and you need to be in my house to get the chance to type it in).

A pass sentence is very hard to crack and easy to remember. Throw in a couple of numbers and capital letters for good measure.

Nice try, FBI.