Ever wondered how your public enemy got into your bank account? Your jealous childhood friend stole your Runescape items? Your boyfriend found out you were cheating on him – by getting into your email? Learn the tips here and find out how to create a decent, easy to remember password, not to mention “STRONG”!
Always remember to think how ANYONE would like to steal your passwords, whether for bank, games, or email. This includes family members to friends to workplace peers. Be cautious of what you do and show in front of them. This way they can tell what kind of password you will have – if they decide to take your accounts. Now, after you decide what your password is going to be, read this and see if you can make any changes:
1) If you like using your birthday as a password (e.g. 19801002), take into consideration that it would be easy to hack or guess a password with a numbers! Add in something like your initials but make one of them lowercase and the other capital.
2) If you like using your role-model as a password (e.g. Paris Hilton), make sure that you add in a number into it. This can be your ‘lucky’ number or the date you divorced.
3) If you like using easy to guess passwords (e.g. your name), DON’T USE IT!
Well thank you for reading and I hope next time you will lock your computer or whatever with a better password.
Sat, Jun 13, 2009, by Ph.D. DR. ZIXING JIE
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