Craft passwords you’ll never forget.
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I ran a typical password scheme through a tester on the Intel website (8+ characters, lowercase, caps, numbers AND punctuation) – It would take about 3,363 years to crack. NOTE: the top two passwords used ‘123456‘ and ‘password‘ both scored ZERO SECONDS.
Let’s improve on that.
1. Make a statement
I will not forget my secure password
2. Personalize & Punctuate
Ninjas don't forget passwords
3. Add a swear word
A 4-digit number holding SHIFT
Ninjas don't !@#$ passwords
4. Add some leet-speak*
The most common form of leet-speak* is substituting numbers for letters.
[Don’t] has been simplified to [/].
N1nJAZ/!@#$pa55w0rd5
1 = i | 2 = Z | 3 = E | 4 = A | 5 = S |
6 = G | 7 = T | 8 = B | 9 = Q | 0 = O |
*The word ‘elite’ meaning ‘one of the best’ became ‘leet’ then eventually ‘1337’ – see it?)
5. Localize
Choose a seperator then add the first two letters of the domain you’re creating the password for. For Google use ‘go’, for this site use ‘ni’.
N1nJAZ/!@#$pa55w0rd5|ni
CONGRATS!
It would take about 74,495,956 years to crack your password. Test Page.
GOOD : N1nJAZ
BETTER : NinJAZpa55w0rd
ninja : N1nJAZ/!@#$pa55w0rd5|??
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