If so, it's time to scurry around and change your on-line passwords.
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The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time
You can create a memorable, secure password starting with a simple phrase. We call these "passphrases". For example, let's use a quote from Ogden Nash:
"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch."
If we use the first letter of each word, and substitute 4 for "for", we get:
Hihas4ei
This is a reasonably strong password but we can improve it a bit by adding some special characters:
#Hihas4ei:
Associating Web Sites...
We can use our new password on several different websites by adding a suffix with a mnemonic link to a particular site. Let's use the first letter and the next two consonants in the site name.
Just to add a bit more randomness we'll alternate upper-case and lower case, and if the first character in the site name is a vowel we'll start with upper-case. To mix things up a bit more we'll use the same rule to decide whether to add the site mnemonic to the left side or the right side.
#Hihas4ei:AmZ for Amazon
fBk#Hihas4ei: for Facebook
#Hihas4ei:YtB for YouTube
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