Reply to post: Re: "in a safe place"

It's time to delete that hunter2 password from your Microsoft account, says IT giant

Philip Stott

Re: "in a safe place"

Sort of been there and done that.

I use eWallet as a password manager.

For a couple of years I used it exclusively on my phone (instead of the desktop version which asks for a password every time), unlocking it with my fingerprint.

After an update it wouldn't let me unlock with a fingerprint and started asking me for the master password again, which I couldn't remember (it's 16 characters of nonsense).

It took me a couple of weeks of daily bum-clenching horror that I couldn't remember it, thinking of all the grief it would cause, until (well lubricated on a Friday night) the password hint phrase - Embiggen not TizWoz - I'd set finally made sense

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