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Creating memorable complex passwords

Creating memorable complex passwords

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Creating memorable complex passwords

- A password's only as strong as your memory. If you've forgotten your password, then it's of no use to you anymore. Creating strong passwords is the key to your online security. I'll go over a few tricks to create and remember a complex password. First, what is a strong complex password? For a truly strong password, you should have most, if not all of these elements: The maximum allowable characters, a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols. This is most often eight. At least one capital letter and preferably not as the first letter. At least one number and at least one symbol, and I avoid the most often used exclamation point and hashtag and other top number key symbols but opt for lesser used greater than signs or brackets and similar. No words or names found in the dictionary, not even foreign dictionaries, and no personal or common names, dates, or numbers. The best passwords have all of the above and are nonsense words or phrases, words or phrases you can't find in a…

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