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Apple: Write Down Your Passwords

Joris Evers writes on the C|Net Security Blog:

Apple advises Mac users to write down their passwords, just in case they have forgotten them when they are needed.

On its Mac 101 Web site, Apple offers a document called the "My Mac Cheat Sheet" [.pdf]. The document has spaces for the Mac users to not just record their Mac OS X related user names and passwords, but also login credentials for e-mail accounts, Internet access accounts and routers.

Now, you might think that Apple has gone bonkers. Actually, it has not. Writing down your password on a sticky note and attaching that to your computer monitor or the bottom of a keyboard isn't smart, but jotting down the information and storing it in a safe place can be helpful.

posted by Fergie @ 3/02/2007 02:42:00 PM