Last updated 2016-01-20
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Passwords
1. Worst passwords are based on words.
Just do a web search
on the “most common passwords”
2. Next come passwords based
on a keyboard pattern. (such as QWERTY)
3. Best passwords are
based on a mnemonic or acronym.
Truly great passwords have
uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters. Some sites
restrict which special characters you use, so the following example
may not work at all sites.
Try something like this:
My two most favorite teachers were
Miss Sachs and Dr. Lo.
Now we convert that to an acronym and
get:
M2mftwMSaDL.
Of course you won’t use my example, you’ll use something else. Use a favorite Bible verse, a verse from a song, a couple of lines from a poem. Anything to be different.
Write it down. But put it somewhere fairly safe. Not next to your computer.
Change your passwords at least once a year. Don’t use the same password for everything. For high risk accounts (bank accounts or anything to do with money) change the account password about once a quarter.
You can also use the online password generators. These sites generate a complex and quite random string of characters. Try this site.