Creating and remembering strong passwords — like backing up our computers’ contents — is something many of us know we should do, but don’t.

And can you blame us? Having to come up with user names and passwords for virtually everything we do on a computer is ample to form anyone use “Magic123″ by and by. I’ve even heard of society who keep lists of passwords taped to their computer screens.

With a little instance and some discipline, you can create strong passwords and do a better job managing them.

Of course, no matter how many precautions you take, no password is ever 100 percent secure. By the same token, you don’t have to follow all the advice in that column to avoid password theft.

By now most citizens know that you shouldn’t use personal knowledge such as your name, birth moment or address in a password. It’s additionally not a good notion to use something

obvious such as “1234″ or “password.”

Passwords should be at least seven or eight characters in length. The longer the password, the stronger it is.

Next, choose a password that would seem as nothing more than a random list of characters to someone else. Use both uppercase and lowercase letters and, whether possible, use punctuation marks from all by the keyboard. One technique is to take a phrase that means something to you or a line from a favorite song and create a password by taking the first letter of each word of that phrase or line. build certain to add in some symbols. For instance, you could replace an “a” with “,” but use that technique sparingly in your password.

Although you should never use the same password to secure highly sensitive knowledge on more than one site, it’s probably OK to use the same password for low-risk…

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