What is your method to choosing a password??

Question

some people use their pet's name, or a foreign language. What do you find is the best way to pick a password that won't be easily discovered?

Answer 1

Pick a favorite phrase like "Twas The Night Before Christmas And All Through The House..."
Make the password the first letter of each word TTNBCAATTH. Easy to remember, just say the phrase and type the letters, but total nonsense to anyone else.

Answer 2

Depends. If I'm creating a strongly-typed password for a corporate network (such as wireless authentication or domain admin password), I'll do the following:

1) Raise hands high above keyboard.
2) Slam hands down on keyboard.
3) Repeat until password is 12-16 characters long

Many times, if possible, I'll also add strange characters to the mix. Dollar signs (ie, $password$) help a lot; many hackers/crackers/innocent but curious users won't expect it.

However, if you're using passwords just for personal use and don't feel like using something crazy that you might need to write down, then a simple combination of letters and numbers might help. Maybe the name of a character in a book (ie "dcopperfield") followed by a number with significance to you (ie "dcopperfield1962"). Do not use pets' names, do not use your name, do not use your birthday or your initials. It shoul dbe something personal that maybe only a wife or otherwise close significant other could even come close to guessing. If the whole world knows you loves strawberries, don't pick "strawberry1947" as your password. Instead, use more candid facts: "footmanx69" is a perfectly acceptable (while not necessarily strongly-typed) and hard to guess password.

Change passwords once a month-- and I don't suggest using the same password in 2 different places.

Hope I helped,
BK

Answer 3

I usually pick something very simple (a really simple word) that nobody would think to use as a password. Then you change it to capitalilze some letters and add numbers to it to make it more secure. It has always worked for me.

Answer 4

I've always liked using the license plates from a previous car/motorcycle. Its good habbit to memorize them anyway and by putting two together (and mixing with Capitalization) you have a very secure password.

Answer 5

Use something that you can easily remember but most people will not know such as the date and model of your first car. Don't forget to mix up caps and non-caps to be even more secure.

Answer 6

think out of the box something only you would even think of considering something that is too weird for other people to waste time tr yin to crack pets are to simple the criminal mind is always work in aroUNd us normal people so think un normally to throw em way off also when I started to work for H. P. the programmers used Greek to throw people off Lil secret good luck


PS also go ghetto, Indian

Answer 7

Use a mix of numbers and letters, also be sure to make some letter capitol and lower case.

Answer 8

the password cold be your place of birth and year of birth suitably mingled

Answer 9

If I told you it wouldn't be a secret anymore, now would it? Sorry I can't divulge that information.

Answer 10

you can chose middle numbers of your phone mobil are number of old house or some lucky number after any name you can remember.