One thing we notice or should have noticed is when we create our Steemit account that we are warned to take care of the password. If it gets lost then you can simply forget it; it is curtains for your account.
Steemit does warn us quite starkly about this. If you head to the wallet and then password section you can see this:
However we need this password quite often for
- Sending SBD to others
- Powering up Steem to SteemPower
- Voting for witnesses
- Other things I have yet to encounter.
It needs to be in a handy place for quick access but not handy for others to access!
I for one have been procrastinating lately about making a backup, printing the password, and hiding it in my house in a place only myself and family are aware of.
Until recently my password was stored on the internet and could possibly have been compromised, but no longer.
Having recently invested some fiat currency into the Steem Ecosystem I was feeling more and more uncomfortable about it. So here’s what I did.
I removed the internet stored password.
I created a text file which contained just my password string with the name ‘ediw.su' and added it to my USB stick. I then copied the file to a second USB stick. I carry these around everywhere with me as they contain a brain dump of my professional scripts and work going back around TEN years. Within the text file is simply a long string of 7-bit ASCII characters. Quite meaningless to someone who may find my lost USB stick if that ever happened.
Why ‘ediw.su’? Call the file what you like, it means something to you and nothing to others.
I printed the password on paper; This step is very important!
The paper version is not just a string of characters but in the lines of, ‘Slobberchops Steemit Password: d7ds7dsdhhhfjdds7fs87ffgduyfdfdsf77fds7. Oh, that's not my real password, I know what you’re thinking!
Lastly, let family members know what this is and where it is. They may need to get at your funds someday and I for one am in the game for the long term.
Your Steemit password needs to be accessible and yet secure. What methods do you use to do this?
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