[Gennie]

This is a good overview on how to create passwords for different types of online accounts.

[CatQuilt]

I finally got a password management tool, LastPass, and it's wonderful. You can use it to generate a long random password for every account. At the very least, it's easy to set up a different (and less random) password for each account.

LastPass

[jonno]

Password Bookmark

[Verginius Rufus]

Of course really smart people like John Podesta create passwords which are impossible to guess or crack.

[tiki]

I have a system that remains somewhat random, some things stay the same, other things change for each site and capitalization changes.

If I forget which variation I have used on that site I have just 4 alternatives to check out.

[DBG8489]

Even NIST now recommends permanent pass phrases as opposed to the typical corporate “8-14 character with caps and specials” changed every 30-90 days.

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63-3.html

And you can run crack progs against your own phrases to see how secure they are before you put them in use.

[Sergio]

Tech Bookmark.

[taxcontrol]

Stop using pass WORDS!

Folks, you need to use pass PHRASES!!!!

For example:

“I love red roses!” = 17 characters and it is easy to remember. For many, it is easier than “Redr0ses” and significantly harder to brute force crack.

[Flick Lives]

Using 1Password for about 2 years. Don’t know how I managed before without it.

[old-ager]

Do we really trust password managers that are hosted on other people’s servers?

I know, encryption, blah blah.