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What's a good password?
August 6, 2008
Use different passwords for different Web sites. Maintain separate passwords for e-mail, work and other important Web sites and routine web-surfing.
Use difficult-to-guess password by taking the first alphabet from each word of a phrase. What is a good password? It is a password which is at least 8 characters long, not easily guessable, contains mixture of uppercase and lowercase letters as well as numbers, and preferably contains special characters like $, *, %, !, * etc. Some examples of a good password are: &(^.3235*cRack&.^).
Always use alphanumeric passwords with special characters and try to adopt phrasing technique to construct passwords which are easy to remember, hard to guess and impossible to crack. Create a unique acronym. Never use a dictionary based password like guest, home etc. It takes little time for a good cracker to crack the password.
Also see: How to escape phishing in online banking
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