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Securityexperts advise four things about passwords:First, usea different password for each account. If you have accounts on thirty websites, all with the same password, and someone hacks one of the sites, thehacker now has your password, which lets him in to your other 29 accounts. Ifone of those is your bank account, bye-bye. Therefore, keep separate passwordsfor each account.Second,your passwords must be a random mix of upper and lower case letters and numbers.Why random? So that you wont select the name of your spouse, or pet, orfavorite croquet team.But whatabout words that have no connection to you thats apparent. Like apparent? Thisis also a no-no, even if you sex it up intosomething like apPar3nt,.Why? Because hackers often use dictionaries in searching for passwords thatlook like words. There are even some sites that wont accept this as a passwordbecause it is based on a word.Third, never write your passwords down. Youcould lose the paper or someone else could find it. And if you enter them ina file on your computer and youre hacked, bye-bye.Fourth, change your passwords frequently, sothat if one is cracked, it will soon be changed.Now, I dont know about you, but for those of us who arentmemory prodigies, this advice is impossible to follow, so many people take theeasy way out and just use password (or maybe passw0rd).Heres a simple system to generate secure passwords and keeptrack of them. It requires a set of transformation rules, and, for eachpassword, a root.The root is a mnemonic based on the first eight words of aparagraph from any text that you might have on-line. Here, Ill use a novel.The first paragraph starts, The Grand Canyon in late March was a bleak place.The first eight words form the mnemonic tgcilmwa.Here is a sample set of transformation rules:The first character of a password is a lower case letter. The vowels, a, e, i, o, u, and y become the numbers one to six. The consonants in the first half of the alphabet, b to m, are lower case. The consonants in the second half of the alphabet, n to z, are upper case.Using theserules, the mnemonic tgcilmwa becomes the password tgc3lmW1 where the firstl is a letter, the second is a one.Do you needanother password? Then go the second paragraph, which starts The totalpeace was broken around 10:45 when. The mnemonic is ttpwbatw and thepassword becomes tTPWb1TW.How do you remember which password goes with which account?Write down the account and your user id, then the page and paragraph number ofthe root. The notation for the two passwords we created would be 1-1 and 1-2.Of course, never identify the document youre using.With this system, you can create an endless supply of passwordsand keep track of which ones you used for which accounts.
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