This was going to be a part of the “backup” thread that I’d started and the topic was turning to passwords. As this is something a lot of people cheap out on I thought I’d give it a separate thread.
How do you guys deal with bigger passwords? I advice users to come up with either proper capitalization and use punctuation etc.
If you really want a great password use a full sentence, including punctuations and proper capitalizations. I usually leave out spaces. A good example would be:
Re: Long passwords: suggestion for easy to use ones
Nice suggestions :k:
I just use a random combination of letters (some capitalised) and numbers… totally random, nothing significant… and for added security measure for sensitive files/folders/drives/accounts, i usually change it every 3 months.
BTW, you guys have used special characters in your passwords… sometimes they are not allowed though…
Re: Long passwords: suggestion for easy to use ones
^^^ and sometimes, when you are in another country using any keyboard layout, then finding your special character is a difficult ask......... cause usually our mind associates the special character with the number/or other keys instead of remembering the actual special character.
Re: Long passwords: suggestion for easy to use ones
The best is to use your favorite quotes or songs or phrases and then with SOME words replace numbers. I say some because if you replace all with special characters/numbers then it will become too cumbersome. For example:
U2's -- Sunday Bloody Sunday --> $undayBloody$unday OR SundayBl00dySunday OR adopt a convention to place your favorite digit instead of a space in the phrase of your choice e.g. Sunday7Bloody7Sunday
