It’s increasingly important these days to ensure that your passwords are as secure as they can be to prevent identity theft or unauthorized access to your data. Everyone knows that they should have a strong password but it’s so hard to remember them and we end up using the same easy to remember words that are easy to crack for the bad guys. So how do you get a better password?
Here are a few steps to build and remember a strong password
The strongest passwords are long strings of random letters numbers and symbols however this would be almost impossible to remember for a normal human being so whats the next best thing?
Why not try to make up a random string of characters based on a sentence or quote that is memorable to you but would be difficult for anyboby else to guess.
First think of a quote or phrase that you will remember, for example “I live at twenty six Evergreen Terrace Manchester.”
Now turn your sentence into a simple password by using the first letter of each word of your phrase to create a basic password, in this case: “ilatsetm”
To add some complexity to your password add numbers and capital letters (in mine it’s easy but you could swap E’s to 3’s or L’s to 1’s etc. so our password might now be “i1a263GTM”
Now see if you can swap some letters for special characters my at could be swapped for the @ symbol or you could use the $ for an S
So now our simple password is “i1@263GTM” which is better than using a well known word.
You might also comsider creating new passwords for each website that you register with, you can do this easily by adding the initials of the website to your existing password that way you can have unique passwords that are still easy to remember. i.e. for TSB bank “TSBi1@263GTM”
Why not have a go yourself with a phrase or sentance that you are not likely to forget?
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