Creating a strong, easy-to-remember password that is nonetheless difficult to guess can be quite the trick…
Lisa Eadicicco for Business Insider:
The perfect password may not exist, Etay Maor, an executive security adviser at IBM Security, told Business Insider. But he said there was a technique you could use to create passwords that’d be tough for hackers to figure out but easy to keep top of mind. Maor suggests creating a “passphrase” instead of a password.
The passphrase technique is exactly what it sounds like. It entails coming up with a memorable phrase you can use in place of a password, since the longer the password is, the more difficult it is for a machine to crack.
For example, you could choose a phrase like “I want to go to a Bon Jovi concert” and turn that into a password. “A computer will take, I don’t want to say an infinite amount of time, but a not realistic amount of time, to be able to guess it,” Maor said.
MacDailyNews Take: Please, do not use “I want to go to a Bon Jovi concert” as your password — or as a sentence, ever.
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