Passwords
About 67 percent of people write their passwords down on a piece of paper, according to a 2017 survey by the Pew Research Center, but keeping a running list of your passwords, PINs, and alarm codes in your wallet is just asking for trouble. “It wouldn’t take somebody more than a few minutes to figure out what those numbers are,” says Levin. “Why be an unwilling co-conspirator in the theft of your own identity?” Siciliano recommends using a password manager on your phone or computer instead. The app stores all your passwords for you, so you can make a different obscure one for every account without needing to memorize them all.
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