ROBERT SIEGEL, host: We've been hearing from you at our All Tech Considered blog. Last week, we asked you to send us your strategies for remembering your many online passwords. Nathan Long of Augusta, Georgia, recommends the free program Password Safe. He writes: It keeps all my passwords in a single file, which is encrypted with my master password.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Tina Agentis(ph) or New Haven, Connecticut, suggests this strategy: I am a big fan of the Grateful Dead. All of my passwords are somehow related to the band. For example, I'll take the first letter from each of the words in the name of a song with a very long title as my password, preceded or followed by symbols and numbers. This works well for me, and given the Dead's roster of songs, creating new passwords a few times a year doesn't seem like it'll be a problem.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And finally, Helena Ellis of Providence, Rhode Island, passes on this recommendation: I work for Brown University, and during orientation, this was the IT department's advice about passwords: passwords are like underwear. They are private. Don't share them with anyone. And change them often. Well, you can keep the tech conversation going. You can find it at npr.org/alltech.
Listeners respond to a story about online passwords.