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if only i had a pound for the number of people that ask me “what makes a good password”( or words to that effect)

Why do people struggle with the importance of using “good passwords”.

The only thing i can think is that it is down to people struggling to think of/remember passwords that are hard to crack but easy to remember.

So i thought i might give some ideas as to what makes a good password and how to go about remembering it.

The Do NOT’s

• Never write your password down.
• never use words that can b found in a dictionary
• never join words that can be found in a dictionary eg – horsecatdog
• increment passwords eg password1 password2 password3
• never use short passwords eg less than 8 characters
• never share your password – not even with your trusted IT Guy

The Do’s

• Use passwords longer than 8 characters (ideally 16)
• Use a combination of Uppercase, lower case, numbers and special characters eg !”£$%^&*()_+#~.,:;?/\|@’

Tip to remembering a good cryptic password

Take words like Panasonic and Caravan, and the characters @!# and convert it to leet speak, eg

instead of PanasonicCaravan@!# hang it to P4n450n1c@!#C4r4v4N (19 characters)

s=5

A=4

i=1

o=0

another example might be Honda Big Digger (£$ = H0nD4£B1g£d1gg3r( – is 15 characters

etc etc, you get the idea but now using something like P4n450n1c@!#C4r4v4Nyou have an easy way to remember a 19 digit character password.

another example might be Honda Big Digger (£$ = H0nd4£B1g£d1gg3r( – is 15 characters