Choosing Your Password
It seems that I sign up for a new service or a new application every week. And every time I have to choose a user name and a password. Over the years, I have learned a few techniques to choose passwords that are fairly difficult to guess but are easy to remember (for me).
1. A street address: A street address makes a perfet password as long as is not directly related to you. Your home or office address would be make poor passwords. Address of a friend’s home, library or your favorite coffee shop can all make good passwords.
13BowmanDr and 3505thAve (Empire State Building) are examples of two address turned into passwords.
2. Rhymes or song lyrics: Pick a sentence from a rhyme or a song. Pick a year or a month. This could be when the song was released or when you first heard it. Combine the first letter of each word and the year or month you chose.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - ttlS2009
Pocket Full Of Sun Shine – Pfoss2008
3. If you are a good typist, then pick a phrase. A quote you like or an idiom would make good password.
’Knock on Wood’ has three words. So the password becomes ‘3KnockonWood‘.
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