Recently, I got a note that someone had been trying hard to get into my Amazon account and in doing so, made my account inactive. They asked me to go in and change the password and reset it and it should be all good. One problem. I set that Amazon account up in 2018 and literally had no idea what the password was. After about an hour and some very helpful people at Amazon, I got my account up and running again.
A few days later, my credit card had expired in my Netflix account and I had to add a new card and had to go in and set it up. Because my account was inactive, I had to, you guessed it, go in and reset everything. One problem again that came up and yes, you already know. The password, I had zero idea what the password was. I still don’t and now the account is sitting there until I devote about 3 weeks time to figure it out.
This brought up a bigger problem. I wrote down my all my accounts that required a password and only half worked. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Years ago, all my passwords were my late cat’s name followed by a few numbers. When I had to change all of them at some point, I vowed never to do that again. That was too tough and I know you all know what that means.
I ask myself, “Why didn’t you just keep it universal?” I also ask myself, “Why do you eat all that fast food everyday?” So you see what I am working with here. Not much. One of my goals in 2025 is to sit down and go through all of the accounts and figure it all the passwords but thinking about that gives me an ulcer.
There is that one meme where a hacker sends a note to someone and says, We have all your passwords. And the other person says, great, what are they?
May your 2025 be hacker-free and you know all your passwords. I swear that 1,2,3,4 might be the best password. No, I don’t have that. Or maybe I do.
