{"id":766,"date":"2007-04-10T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T09:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/04\/what-was-that-password-again.htm"},"modified":"2007-04-10T10:52:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T09:52:32","slug":"what-was-that-password-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/04\/what-was-that-password-again.htm","title":{"rendered":"What was that password again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the course of my daily computing activities I have to remember hundreds of username and password combinations.  Literally.  Just at work there are two (yes two!) timesheet applications, then there&#8217;s my corporate domain credentials, remote access, mobile phone billing portal, etc., each with their own username and password complexity\/expiry policies; then there are all the systems at home; and finally the plethora of websites at which I have an account.<\/p>\n<p>There are those who say that writing down credentials is a bad idea, whilst others say that using a single username and password combination is bad practice &#8211; these people are absolutely correct as, once compromised, an attacker has access to all the systems that use those credentials but we also need to be pragmatic &#8211; how can any user seriously be expected to remember all the usernames and passwords for the multitude of systems that they access?  Indeed, many of the credentials I used are stored in my browser&#8217;s password manager &#8211; I haven&#8217;t a clue what my password is and I just open up the page and let my browser auto-complete the fields for me.<\/p>\n<p>If we cast our minds back a few years to the launch of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/net\/\">Microsoft.net Framework<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passport.net\/\">Passport.net<\/a> was supposed to take away a lot of the hassle for web service authentication and we all know what a failure Passport was (outside Microsoft) &#8211; people just didn&#8217;t want Microsoft holding the keys to all their systems &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/microsofts-digital-identity-metasystem.htm\">InfoCard could well succeed where Passport failed<\/a> but I have an identity crisis right here, right now!<\/p>\n<p>One of the systems that I access regularly was recently moved to a new server &#8211; hence to a new URL and so the stored username and password didn&#8217;t work for me. This is where one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/some-handy-system-utilities.htm\">handy system utilities<\/a> that I wrote about a while back came in useful &#8211; I went to the old URL for the application, let the browser auto-complete the details and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nirsoft.net\/utils\/asterie.html\">Nirsoft AsterWin IE<\/a> was able to scan for the stored password, which I could then manually enter at the new site.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this advice comes with all the usual caveats when using third party applications to probe for security details&#8230; I haven&#8217;t checked for any unwanted side effects of using this application and you have been warned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the course of my daily computing activities I have to remember hundreds of username and password combinations. Literally. 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