[Swordmaker]

7 Password Experts on How to Lock Down Your Online Security (link only due to copyright) — PING!

Secure Password Advice from Experts
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[ronnietherocket3]

Correct, horse battery staple.

[taxcontrol]

I recommend a poem or a phrase that you will remember. Something like “On a warm summers evening, on a train bound for nowhere” (opening lines of the Gambler by Kenny Rogers). Then take the first letter of each word.

oawseoatbfn

Capitalize the first letter, substitute the number zero for any “o”s and substitute ! for any ones. The # can be use for t’s as it is basically two t’s stacked on each other. It then becomes

Oawse0a#bfn

That will pass all most all password requirements. It is also easy to remember a favorite song, quote or phrase.

[G Larry]

Let’s see....

120 different accounts
120 different passwords
make them long
don’t write them down.......BUT, do use a password manager.....?

[gaijin]

;ater

[normbal]

NSA IT guy I knew helped me create a personal PW algorithm, you can too.

Childhood pet?

some 4 digit number you can’t forget.

Break things up, use the name of the website as an acronym in the password.

Dog: lassie

mom’s birthday: 0914

website: Freerepublic.

Two capital letters from the LAST syllable of freerepublic: IC

IC09lass14ie!

YOUR algorithm is a pattern YOU fill in the details of, a whole lot less to memorize.

ONLY issues become someone hacking ONE account and using your PW to decode the PW for other sites.

That’s where unique user names come into play, again, based on the preceeding.

Sounds complicated, but once you’ve written some of it down, make it work for YOU then destroy your notes.

[leaning conservative]

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[minnesota_bound]

If you guys will give me your account information I can then test how secure and then get back to you with the results.
Afterwards maybe we can go phishing together.

[AndyTheBear]

Looking over shoulders of people I see them just repeating the * character like:

*********

Come on guys, use something harder to guess. My favorite is:

abc

...oopps, forget I typed that....

[Ken H]

Use ‘password’. It’s SO obvious, no one will ever guess...

[dfwgator]

[Albion Wilde]

bump for later

[2nd amendment mama]

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