Is it safer to make a different password for all acounts?

Question

What I mean is, is it safer to make a different password to all your different accounts you have on the internet?

Answer 1

Yes, it is safer. But you'll never remember them all. Write them down, or if you would rather not, get a password-protected password manager to keep track of them. Just Yahoodle for "password manager" and you should get a bunch. Don't buy any. There are numerous freeware ones available. Here are a few good ones:

http://www.geocities.com/ramix_info/passwordmanager.html
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
http://www.moonsoftware.com/pwagent.asp

Answer 2

You don't have to remember all of them. Use an Encrypted Password storage program and then you only need to remember th Master Password you set up for the program.

Go here for many free programs to do this. I personally like KeePass Password Safe.

Answer 3

I would think so. Once someone has your password, then goes into different accounts of yours with same password. Then they have access to everything. Try to use different password for your different account. Write them down on paper and put in safe place.

Answer 4

Yes, but only if they are strong passwords, a very secure strong password is better than 6 weak passwords.

Make it as long as possible with numbers and allowed characters like ? & ! etc

Makes it harder to crack.
A good strong password should be alphanumeric, over 8 characters with upper and lowercase.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

Answer 5

Yes it is and it's also a safe idea to use a combo of number and letters or a combo of small and CAPS. That way it's harder for someone to figure out your passwords. And don't use pets names, or your address and silly stuff like that.

Answer 6

Only if you can remember them all.

But yes its definitely safer because if one password is hacked they cant get into the rest.

Answer 7

It would be safe, but you should write them all down so you don't forget which password goes to what account.

Answer 8

yes unless some ones already hacked your computer like me! i dont bother to come up with some interesting password codes! and i have trouble remembering them lol

Answer 9

Yes, but inconvenient.

Answer 10

yes