A PasswordCard is a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick very secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them! You just keep them with you, and even if your wallet does get stolen, the thief will still not know your actual passwords.

A very cute idea, well implemented.

Your PasswordCard has a unique grid of random letters and digits on it. The rows have different colors, and the columns different symbols. All you do is remember a combination of a symbol and a color, and then read the letters and digits from there. It couldn’t be simpler!

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. It’s far safer to pick secure passwords and write them down, than it is to remember simple and easy to guess passwords. You already protect your wallet very well, and even if it does get stolen the thief will still not know which of the many thousands of possibilities on the card is your password.

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Nice! Congrats!

How old is she? How did you market it to her?

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She is in her 80’s. I mostly just explained WHY she would need one, and promised once she was done with the transition, things would be easier. Her old password method was a weathered old piece of paper with everything scribbled down on it, with lots of old pet names and other animals with random numbers attached.

Now she is very happy with being able to have all of her passwords ready either on her computer, phone, or iPad, and she feels a lot more secure with the long random passwords.

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Wow, 80s! I’m seriously impressed, by both of you. She must be something else to be willing to try something so foreign to her, and you clearly knew how to present it to her.

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