Creating A Strong Password & Keeping It Safe

[Fury's Punisher]

Hmm, nice guide. I make my passwords random and including lots of numbers mixed in... Like say I'm eating pizza, I'd make it: P0I0Z0Z0A0. Or something like that.

 

[RS2blitz]

Thanks another way for example is like
"i went to the shop 3 days in a row"
Take first letter from each word?
"iwtts3diar"
Pretty safe imo.

 

[E15 Choong Boy]

thats a very strong password lol

 

[Breakyoself]

That type of password is insane. Very easy to forgot...
I find the best way to keep a strong password and remember it is to use numbers that have some significance to you. For example, you could add your birthday on to the end of some words you're not likely to forgot.

 

[ToastedApple]

Very nice guide, and oh my god the website there is a genious! Thanks for making this. Great work!

 

[Ballin Boi]

"Your passwords are the keys you use to access personal information that you've stored on your computer and in your online accounts.

If criminals or other malicious users steal this information, they can use your name to open new credit card accounts, apply for a mortgage, or pose as you in online transactions. In many cases you would not notice these attacks until it was too late.

Fortunately, it is not hard to create strong passwords and keep them well protected."


A strong password is:

• Lengthy
• Not a word or common phrase
• Made up of case sensitive characters, numbers, and punctuation marks/symbols
• Isn't used in more than one place. Always use a different password for another website or computer. Computers holding the passwords can get hacked, and can then be used to access multiple accounts if the password is used in more than one place.

The easiest way to generate a safe password, is with a password generator. These will create extremely secure passwords, if the proper settings are used.

A great password generator is found here:
http://strongpasswordgenerator.com/

Use the following settings, and you will generate a great password like the following. Obviously you wouldn't use this one.

Remember, use a separate password everywhere!
Also;


If you want to protect yourself further, try this Firefox add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3383


Cheers.

I just got my new Sythe.org password. Thank you.

Can it generate the same thing twice ?

 

[R33l2r3al]

Thanks for this guide. Just reset about 5 or 6 passwords, followed the general rules you laid out. This was VERY helpful.

 

[J a K e Y]

Nice guide, theres plenty of Password Generating websites out there. I use the same password for everything and its the password Yahoo gave me years ago. Contains Numbers and Letters, thats always the best way to make a secure password.

 

[Seven51]

Yeah, i tend to change most of my passwords every few months. Gets pretty boring trying to remember a random assortment of number/letters tho lol.

 

[Plot]

if you use symbols in a password it's VERY unlikely to be picked up in a bruteforce account

 

[Nathan III]

What a way to get a nice strong, secure password. Go on a site and get that to make one for you...

 

[Miss Alicia]

Yeah,just a quick tip. You can put passwords down on a document
Maybe a few passwords, and print it out. If your lazy. I like the colour and pictures though

 

[Deathstar110]

Thanks Eric great guide.

 

[Burnley]

nice but i use my password's as cheat's from old computor games

 

[WoWnub]

I see this guide as good but who is stupid enough to make their password like "hello" I mean thats common sense.

 

[The Pants Party]

thank you i use old game codes as passwords

 

[M_A_I_N_FTW]

the best way is I just use a part of notes from guitar hero like red snake from ttfaf.

 

[Qllm]

This guide Helped me alot, i will be more then definatley using this in the upcomming future 9/10!

 

[Cho]

ty but mroe most pass's can it not contain those symbols?

Im not what sites would allow symbols like that, and to recreate that would be a little difficult.

A strong password can be as easy as

(your favorite number)(Your middle name)(Year you graduated)

So a random one would be...

8william2005 (no this isn't mine)

 

[Mega_JonixX]

On some places you cant just all those kind of different symbols, then i guess it would be best if you mix small and BIG letters + some numbers