Be still my beating heart
I don’t like keeping my passwords on my computer. Instead I keep them on an innocuously labered floppy disk in a password protected Word document. That way I only need to remember one password. I need to keep them in some format though because I use very complex passwords. Here’s an example (I don’t use this one but it is representative) mzG4JgDnQ$. Today I needed to access one of those passwords and I slipped the disk into the drive and waited. Uh oh, bad sounds coming from drive, uh oh uh oh Drive A: inaccessible warning. OK I’m fisked if I can’t get at that file. It’s either the drive that’s fragged or the disk. Please don’t be the disk.
Fortunately there are a lot of computers in this house and I was able to get it open on one downstairs then emailed emailed the file to myself - whew - heartrate goes down. I’ll have to go buy a new 3.25″ floppy drive on the weekend. Well at least my hard drive is sitting behind two hardware firewalls and one software firewall. I don’t use MS browsers or email clients and I don’t open email from people I don’t know so I guess it’s safe on my hard drive for a bit 
fwiw: in 12+ years of computing (during 3 of which I ran a 250 user BBS) I have never had a system infected by a virus or trojan or compromised by someone else in any way but I’ve sure cleaned up a lot of other people’s messes. Practice safe computing folks.
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