Advice from a computer security expert, on passwords used for accessing online accounts:

Computer users should use a different password for each online account. They should also use strong passwords, which are hard for hackers to decipher. However, strong passwords are difficult to remember, and this is especially the case for users who have multiple online accounts.

Fortunately, software is available for little or no cost that can store and encrypt a user's passwords: the user need only remember one password to access the rest. For users willing to take the time to install the software on a computer and enter all the required data, such software provides one way to comply with security expert's advice. Some versions of the software can even be copied to a portable device, such as a USB drive, whereby a user can access passwords from any compatible computer. For a computer user with multiple accounts who would not otherwise use a different strong password on every account, the expert's advice amounts to suggesting that users make certain sacrifices in order to make certain gains.

Indicate by appropriate selections in the first and second column which of the items in the third column would describe a sacrifice for this user and which would be a gain. Make only two selections, one in each column.

Sacrifice - Gain
[ ]------------[ ]------Money
[ ]------------[ ]------Computing Speed
[ ]------------[ ]------Security
[ ]------------[ ]------Number of Online Accounts
[ ]------------[ ]------Time

The first sacrifice would be money as you would spend a good sum of money to buy the software that locks all your different passwords for each online account and in the same vein, you gain security because now, you stand at less risk of being hacked because of all your passwords are stored in a secure place which can be accessed by a master password that's easily remembered.

The second sacrifice would be sacrifice of computing speed.

The software to store the numerous passwords would take an amount of space in the computer memory, thereby altering the computing speed of the computer.

But the gain is time because you don't have to run the risk of forgetting passwords and going through the rigors and time consuming process of retrieving password.