Poll: How frequently do you change your passwords to maintain account security? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How frequently do you change your passwords to maintain account security?".
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| | | | Oscar Núñez Alfaro 
Costa Rica
Local time: 16:49
Member (Oct 2026)
English to Spanish
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| I only change them when I am forced to do it! | May 28, 2025 |
I have many apps accounts, so I prefer to keep only one password as long as possible to not worry about that.
| | | | | Only if I suspect a security issue or I am forced to | May 28, 2025 |
If you already have a reasonably secure password, then changing it will not make it more secure, only more difficult to remember!
My computer-wise friends generally agree that if your password is not compromised, then there is no need to change it frequently.
The big problem is remembering them, and I have four printed A4 pages of passwords to this and that. I take great care of them, but they cannot be hacked online! The real security passwords - to my bank and ID - a... See more If you already have a reasonably secure password, then changing it will not make it more secure, only more difficult to remember!
My computer-wise friends generally agree that if your password is not compromised, then there is no need to change it frequently.
The big problem is remembering them, and I have four printed A4 pages of passwords to this and that. I take great care of them, but they cannot be hacked online! The real security passwords - to my bank and ID - are not included, or coded in ways that cannot be hacked. (You have to know my school laundry number or my parents' address when I was a student, and things like that to crack them).
[Edited at 2025-05-28 23:43 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | | My password management strategy is ... | May 28, 2025 |
... no-one's business but my own.
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IrinaN (X)
United States
Local time: 17:49
English to Russian
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| Now this is going too far | May 28, 2025 |
Who is buying or tracking this info? Proz, are you nuts? Full name, profile on Proz, and public admission that one has just one password for everything?!?!?!
Why would you encourage such recklessness, and what purpose does this poll serve? Who or what encourages you to collect our cash habits, our personal savings policies, our password management?
| | | | Liena V.
Latvia
Local time: 01:49
Member (2014)
French to Latvian
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I also have just 1 password for everything, it is 123password.
| | | | Mario Chávez
United States
Local time: 18:49
English to Spanish
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| Password hygiene | May 28, 2025 |
It's almost a foregone conclusion that it's more important to have a long alphanumeric password, a passphrase or a passkey than just a password.
More stressful than having a weak password is to be unable to remove your account details (name, email address, address, etc.) from an online account you no longer use. Some companies, even banks, are very lazy in that respect and do not give their customers a way to request the closing or removal of an unused account.
| | | | Novian Cahyadi (X)
Local time: 05:49
Mario Chávez wrote:
Some companies, even banks, are very lazy in that respect and do not give their customers a way to request the closing or removal of an unused account.
Oh, tell me about it! Even if they provide a way to delete users' accounts, sometimes it's so convoluted to the point of being impractical. There was an e-commerce service I no longer use. To request an account deletion, I needed to write a formal letter and a stamp duty.
This was in 2024.
[Edited at 2025-05-29 05:02 GMT]
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