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The Baltimore Sun has a story on the rising tide of passwords and access codes that we all have to deal with - the primary subject of the story has 279 of them - and thus has to cheat by storing them in an encrypted file on a handheld.
That's one solution. The more common one, I'd guess, is to have only a handful of passwords that you use for everything. Both solutions have their drawbacks - if either is compromised, you pretty much get hosed off fully. There's not really a solution for this using passwords; we need biometric solutions so that we eliminate the memory problem altogether.
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