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How to create strong passwords you'll be able to remember
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Wednesday October 21, 2009
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Wednesday October 21, 2009
When
creating a password
for your computer, your online bank account or your email, you need to balance a strength with making sure you'll remember. The mostsecure password
is useless if you forget it and the most easily memorized password is useless if it's cracked. Here's how to create a strong password you won't soon forget.Download this episode now
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Windows Media Show Notes
- Key premise: You have an almost infinite number of life moments that you can create passwords from.
- These include people, places, dates, times, events and more.
- These are things that have meaning to you, but are nearly impossible to guess.
- The problem with random password generators is that since the passwords they create have no connection to you, they're very hard to remember.
- If the software crashes you're out of luck. My advice? Draw on your life experience.
- Disclaimer: None of the passwords demonstrated are ones I actually use.
- Remember, our goal is to pick passwords that you can remember but that aren't easy for others to guess or "crack."
- Draw from your own life experience because there are things in your life that no one else knows or relates to.
- Pick things that you remember like the name of your 8th grade teacher, your childhood sweetheart, famous people, those you admire and so on.
- Use song titles, dates with meaning to you, old classmates, cities you've wanted to visit
- Mix things up. CaPiTaL lEtTeRs and numb3rs and symbol$.
- Reverse (esreveR) the order of dates, for example. 1969 becomes 9691.
- Toss in a symbol like * ! & $.
- It's okay to physically write down your passwords and keep them on file. Just keep the file secure.
- These include people, places, dates, times, events and more.
- These are things that have meaning to you, but are nearly impossible to guess.
- The problem with random password generators is that since the passwords they create have no connection to you, they're very hard to remember.
- If the software crashes you're out of luck. My advice? Draw on your life experience.
- Disclaimer: None of the passwords demonstrated are ones I actually use.
- Remember, our goal is to pick passwords that you can remember but that aren't easy for others to guess or "crack."
- Draw from your own life experience because there are things in your life that no one else knows or relates to.
- Pick things that you remember like the name of your 8th grade teacher, your childhood sweetheart, famous people, those you admire and so on.
- Use song titles, dates with meaning to you, old classmates, cities you've wanted to visit
- Mix things up. CaPiTaL lEtTeRs and numb3rs and symbol$.
- Reverse (esreveR) the order of dates, for example. 1969 becomes 9691.
- Toss in a symbol like * ! & $.
- It's okay to physically write down your passwords and keep them on file. Just keep the file secure.
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