For the 4th time this year, the week is nearing its peak, and I’m slowly running out of topics. Fortunately, a strained (or extremely dreamy) glance at my own desk is all it takes to find something to get wonderfully worked up about.
You would think that in the digital age, the old-fashioned college pads would have slowly become obsolete – but of course, we didn’t account for the pitfalls of the internet, did we?
Three Websites That Determine My Entire Life
[pullquote]You are the tabloid of online magazines.[/pullquote]
Yes, I know. The headline is a bit grandiose. But how did a reader put it in the comments? “You are the tabloid of online magazines.” Then, of course, we have to deliver from time to time, or someone will be disappointed. But back to the main topic.
Next to my keyboard lies an old pad, and although it probably has a good 10 years on it, I take better care of it than many seminar folders. What could be so important that I would prefer to never lose sight of it, but also not want to store it digitally?
Of course, we’re talking about access credentials. Over the years, so much has accumulated: 27 different accounts for games, plus the “mandatory three”: Steam, BattleNet, and Origin. 6 more entries pertain to my various email addresses that I have created over the years – you know how it is. One for work, one for personal use, one for spam, one for the boss, which you only check once a week… and so on. The last five columns are the access data for social media: Facebook, Twitter, and co.
I can claim without exaggeration that a person who had access to these papers could turn my entire private and work life upside down.
I Need Microsoft Outlook – But for My Games
Since my lovely old World of Warcraft account was hacked about 4 years ago, I really use a different password for every program and service (and for our smarties in advance: No, I wasn’t on any gold seller sites and wasn’t completely naive when entering my data).
[pullquote]Something like Outlook or Thunderbird, just for all sorts of game accounts[/pullquote]
One would think that over the years, you’d remember the passwords, but as often as I change them or switch my current favorite game, I can’t keep up with memorizing them. What I would need is a program that unifies all the login services. Something like Outlook or Thunderbird, just for all sorts of game accounts.
At the same time, that would of course bring about a security issue, as this “master program” would also need to be protected by a password – and whoever had that, I could probably just leave my pad to them. Why can’t everything just run through Steam?
How do you handle all of this? Are you also so “paranoid” and have different passwords for everything? How many different accounts have accumulated for you over the last decade? Is anyone still reading this? Hello?
… See you next week!
