Mimi I have a tip. That’s not a normal tip, but it is something that’s how every tip of the day starts off. Not a normal tip, but it’s a tip of the day.
Adam Okay.
Mimi Here we go. Well, it’s not a cleaning tip. It’s not a wine tip. It is a practical tip. I cannot stress the importance of writing down all of your passwords, all of your challenge words.
Adam Oh yes. Yes.
Mimi Most importantly, your pin number to your computer, the four digit pin.
Adam Just the thought.
Mimi It’s been the biggest frustration for me this week is it’s like, what was John’s first car? Oh my God. What, what was the mascot of his high school team? You know, I mean, we’ve been, it took us days to get the newsletter out because we couldn’t do the challenges for, you know…
Adam if I understand it, you had the passwords to everything except the computer.
Mimi No, no, we had old passwords that hadn’t been updated.
Adam Oh yay.
Mimi Yay. And we had, and yes, we did not have the pin to, and John still won’t give it to us. So we have gotten around it.
Adam Which makes two factor authentication a problem because they send an email. Yes. And so John still won’t give you the pin to his computer.
Mimi Well, he doesn’t remember it because evidently he changed it on a regular basis. So that means you have to go through the Microsoft nonsense.
Adam Oh my goodness. So you can get into it. You go through Microsoft stuff. You can get into the computer.
Mimi We couldn’t, cause we didn’t know. We couldn’t, we don’t know the Microsoft password like anyone does. Although for everyone listening, mine is, you know, I hate Microsoft.
It’s the problem is the two factor authentications are, you know, you got to get it right.
Adam Yeah.
Mimi You know, so when you have access to the email, so you’re getting that far, it is questions that are like, you know, I don’t know, I don’t remember what year his first car was. I don’t know who he went to the prom with. I don’t, you know, all those things are…
Adam Does he, he remembers who he went to the prom with?
Mimi The questions are so insane.
Adam Have you considered Bitwarden or some password manager of the like that you can even set up emergency things after 24 hours, you can, the backup person can claim it and then they can get in.
Mimi Have I considered this? Or are we talking about John?
Adam Well, I’m talking to you because no, of course John hasn’t considered this.
Mimi Everyone knows my passwords cause I use it. I have them written down and yes, I’ve, there’s, I have played with those different programs. I cannot get John to use any of them because he doesn’t, he’s just, that’s just John.
Adam No explanation needed Mimi. It’s just John.
Mimi But everybody else should have, should do this, make everyone’s life easier. The other thing that I highly recommend, even if you don’t need it, give a power of attorney to your spouse, just a durable power of attorney that they can keep in the safety deposit box in case anything happens to you. At least they have access.
Adam You know, when I, when I met Tina, talk about OPSEC, cause that’s what this is, operational security. Um, and I was helping her with her Mac or something on the laptop and I said, Hey, what’s this? It says important. Do not delete. What’s this? That’s all my passwords. Like, Oh, okay. Yeah. That’s where you want it right there in the “important - do not delete” file.
But she has a file, she has a file and it’s safely kept and it’s all written down. She’s very fastidious about this. Very, very good. And she has all my passwords. She knows exactly what they are. They’re all written down for this very reason.
Mimi So yeah, the backend getting in is, you know, and it’s, you know, I didn’t expect this, you know, I really, I don’t think anyone ever expects anything like this. Um, but I’m one of those people who’s always nagging, you know, like, you know, what if, what if, what if, you know, and then if happened, yeah, it if happened and I, you know, it’s, you know, I’m surviving.
Adam Write down your passwords, give a power of attorney.
