I have an account with Gmail, Yahoo, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter and many other websites. Each
and every of them demands a password from me for security purpose. My passwords used to be the same for every account; however, some accounts were used often and so the passwords have been updated from time to time; for those accounts I had left unused for some time, I cracked my head to figure out what the password was or simply re-set it after a few tries.
When there are too many versions and updates of passwords for different accounts, we are easily confused and don't remember them well. Luckily, I have received great advice from a friend who has a good sense of technology to formulate good passwords for each and every account I have, and I will never forget my passwords ever again.
Let me share you all with what I have learnt from him.
For higher security purpose, many websites demand users to create a password having a combination of numbers, symbols, small case letters and sometimes captalised letters. eg. P@ssw0rd, and a password shall have at least eight digits. If you don't have some good techniques in creating one, you might spend some times entering passwords that are either too weak or are not accepted by the site you are about to sign up.
To create a good password, you should think of a word that you can always remember, preferably having five letters, and this word will be used as a base for every other password you will be creating for every account. Let's say you like the word 'Blogs'. To make it stronger, we can replace some letters that resemble numbers with numbers, hence in this case, the letter 'l' and 'o' to number '1' and '0'. Then your base will be 'Bl0gs'.
This will be followed by some letters related to the account you are logging on. You will need to decide how many letters you want to standardize your passwords. Let's say you want 10 letters/digits, so you will need five more letters from the site's name for the password. For example, you are creating a password for your Gmail account. Then, your password might look like this -- 'B10gsGmail'. To complicate the password a little bit more, you may want to add a symbol to it. Something look like this -- 'B10gs&Gmail' -- or -- 'B10gs&Gmai' (if you still want it to be a ten-digit password).
A password for Facebook account can go like this: Gl0gs&Face
A password for Yahoo account can go like this: G10gs&Yaho
A password for Dropbox account can go like this: G10gs&Drop
A password for Outlook account can go like this: G10gs&Outl
To summarize, we can easily standardize our passwords by simply remember our base word and the format.
- Find your base word
- Formulate the base word by replacing one or two letters with numbers
- Add a symbol as a link
- Choose the first four letters from the site name you are logging on (You might also choose the last four if you like)
- You may capitalize any letter in the password, but make sure that you stick to the same format for other passwords
- Go to change all your regular used accounts with your new passwords.
- and yeah, you make it!!! Your passwords are standardized, and you will never forget and go and re-set them ever again.
- One last tip: Don't ever tell others your base word!!!
I find this very useful. Credit go to one of my dearest friends, and hope you like it too.
Cheers,
Jocelyn
2015.01.02
10:35pm
When there are too many versions and updates of passwords for different accounts, we are easily confused and don't remember them well. Luckily, I have received great advice from a friend who has a good sense of technology to formulate good passwords for each and every account I have, and I will never forget my passwords ever again.
Let me share you all with what I have learnt from him.
For higher security purpose, many websites demand users to create a password having a combination of numbers, symbols, small case letters and sometimes captalised letters. eg. P@ssw0rd, and a password shall have at least eight digits. If you don't have some good techniques in creating one, you might spend some times entering passwords that are either too weak or are not accepted by the site you are about to sign up.
To create a good password, you should think of a word that you can always remember, preferably having five letters, and this word will be used as a base for every other password you will be creating for every account. Let's say you like the word 'Blogs'. To make it stronger, we can replace some letters that resemble numbers with numbers, hence in this case, the letter 'l' and 'o' to number '1' and '0'. Then your base will be 'Bl0gs'.
This will be followed by some letters related to the account you are logging on. You will need to decide how many letters you want to standardize your passwords. Let's say you want 10 letters/digits, so you will need five more letters from the site's name for the password. For example, you are creating a password for your Gmail account. Then, your password might look like this -- 'B10gsGmail'. To complicate the password a little bit more, you may want to add a symbol to it. Something look like this -- 'B10gs&Gmail' -- or -- 'B10gs&Gmai' (if you still want it to be a ten-digit password).
A password for Facebook account can go like this: Gl0gs&Face
A password for Yahoo account can go like this: G10gs&Yaho
A password for Dropbox account can go like this: G10gs&Drop
A password for Outlook account can go like this: G10gs&Outl
To summarize, we can easily standardize our passwords by simply remember our base word and the format.
- Find your base word
- Formulate the base word by replacing one or two letters with numbers
- Add a symbol as a link
- Choose the first four letters from the site name you are logging on (You might also choose the last four if you like)
- You may capitalize any letter in the password, but make sure that you stick to the same format for other passwords
- Go to change all your regular used accounts with your new passwords.
- and yeah, you make it!!! Your passwords are standardized, and you will never forget and go and re-set them ever again.
- One last tip: Don't ever tell others your base word!!!
I find this very useful. Credit go to one of my dearest friends, and hope you like it too.
Cheers,
Jocelyn
2015.01.02
10:35pm
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