unwantedLetters

I have very little knowledge of passwords and how to keep them protected. My "keep myself safe" strategy simply has different passwords for different websites - I try to keep special characters in.

It seems to me that with all these websites losing their data and seemingly(to the untrained eye) being completely incompetent I need a better system to manage my passwords.

Can anyone suggest a good system to protect my passwords? For example - If the best way is to save and use complex 20-30 digit long random passwords, then how do you save those passwords?Surely you're not memorizing passwords for all your services, so you're using some sort of password manager so any ideas on which password manager is good? Or perhaps is it good to have a "passwords file", use some random password generator (or perhaps generate MD5 hash of some text and use that as a password) and then keep all of them under some protected file on your system? Or is Mac OS X's Keychain Access any good for storing passwords?

I am asking this question here because there are people in this community who are known to be knowledgable about the security of systems, and that makes them more eligible than I to answer these questions. I have done a little reading on the subject and find discovering a good way to protect myself very difficult. I hope I can get some help in this community.

Thanks in advance.

(As always, any articles/information that educate me on this topic will be helpful)

I just noticed that I'm getting a completely new search results page. Are other people seeing this too?

There is a voice search option (that is much more prominent - never noticed it before) and the page looks a little bit cleaner to me.