August 29, 2007

Creating safe Passwords

The humble password is what keeps other people out of your affairs; this could be everything from access to your work or even more serious to your financial dealings such as Pay Pal, eBay and even banking. The thing about passwords is that they are hard to remember, and nobody wants to write them down. Which is the problem. In some cases people are known to use the same one for everything, so one slip up and everything would be lost.

So here is an idea, think of a sentence, something that you would remember, like:

“I need to go to 7-11 for a Slurpee” or “My phone number is 555-1231″

Then take the first letter of each word, you would then get:

Intgt7-11faS or Mpni555-1231

Your can see how this would be virtually impossible to break, but would be easy to remember.

Source [RF David]

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