Creating a Secure Password
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Creating a secure password is easy but trying to remember it is another thing altogether. Here are a couple of techniques to create a secure password and make it easy to remember.
I picked the name of the creek that ran behind my house when I was a kid. Now that might be okay but let’s take it a step further.
smokes creek and add a few things.
sMokes’cReek#295 I capitalized the 2nd letter of each word. Then I added the apostrophe to make it a possessive noun. ( I was an English major what can I say? ) Then I added the number sign before the numbers which is the number of the house I grew up in.
So I’ve got 16 characters, which is great, and it is easy to remember. And no I’m not using that password for anything.
How about using a nursery rhyme? The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe.
”ToLwLiAs.” Every other letter is a capital with a period at the end and the whole thing enclosed in quotes. Hard to crack but easy to remember.
As I mentioned before you should always use a different password for every log-in you have. I recommend LastPass for this. It’s free and it will even help you find secure passwords. I’ve been using it for almost a year and it is quick and easy to setup and use.
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