Comments on: You Need Better Passwords Right Now

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:10:14 +0000

Thanks Rob – funny, I read that same article, and I wish I could find it again, because it does offer even more security than my method, through the use of characters…

Anyone else see that and have a link?

By: skip hire

skip hire — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:51:35 +0000

I have been using the same 3 passwords for the past 10 years and although I remember a complex FTP password for my server space, rememberig more than one of these isn’t really viable. So I will try your important sentence method. Nice one.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:53:58 +0000

Good tips, I defintely need more secure passwords. It’s been something I’ve been putting off for a long time but thanks for the reminder.

By: Robert Rolfe

Robert Rolfe — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:38:21 +0000

Good Advice. Everyone does need to use stronger passwords to protect their digital identities or investments (not just monetary).

The problem is that users tend to have a problem remembering good passwords that include letters, numbers and symbols that are case sensitive. I read another article a while back that gave another good suggestion on how to get around that. Come up with a good combination that includes the name of the site your logging in to as well as a symbol and then your standard password. This makes it easier for the user to remember.

Such as if your dogs name is sparky and you use this as your password.. simply make a variation of that as your password. Lets say this is the case and you use Yahoo for your mail. We take the first 3 letters of the sites name and a symbol to make the new password of YAH#sparky

This makes a completely secure password that is easy for the user to remember with little effort. It also generates a new password for every site so no malicious admin can obtain your password from a database and use it somewhere else.