What kind of passwords do you choose for email and other online sites?
By Paul Kuehn
@pauliek (287)
Udon Thani, Thailand
January 19, 2016 5:10am CST
According to Splash Data ranking, 123456 and password are the two most common passwords used today. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that these are very insecure passwords and can be guessed by hackers very easily. Other popular passwords are 111111 and football. A good secure password should be a mixture of both upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Do you have a good secure password?
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
19 Jan 16
One excellent way of creating a password is to take an easily memorised phrase of eight or more words and to use the initial or the second letter of each word to form the password. For example, if you took a famous and well-known quotation such as:
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
(Henry David Thoreau)
The initial letters will give you SUCTTWATBTBLFI
You might choose, then, to make the letters alternately upper and lower case and, moreover, to substitute symbols and numerals for some of the letters - '1' for 'I' and '$' for 'S', for example. This would produce:
$uCtTw4tBtBlF1 or something similar.
Unless someone knows both your phrase AND your scheme, this password will be very secure indeed.
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@silvermist (19701)
• India
19 Jan 16
@pauliek Though I know the importance of having a secure password , I use
a simple password.
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