If you're using 'Password1,' seriously, change it now

**Digi** · 03-03-2012, 05:40 PM

Most of my friends use my password method as its easy to remember, but killer to guess.

Open a fav book, go to a random page. Find a 5 or more letter word that you like. Do the same with another book. Now change some of the A's to @ and some of the I's to 1 n so on. Next thing you know you have a 10+ long password that is easy to remember and near impossible to hack.

**Hellow** · 03-03-2012, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by Digi

Most of my friends use my password method as its easy to remember, but killer to guess.

Open a fav book, go to a random page. Find a 5 or more letter word that you like. Do the same with another book. Now change some of the A's to @ and some of the I's to 1 n so on. Next thing you know you have a 10+ long password that is easy to remember and near impossible to hack.

To a certain extent, yes that's true. If you're trying to protect against just humans guessing your password, then that'll work fine. However, if you're up against a password cracker, that would fall with ease. A password cracker can discern anything that's based off a dictionary word(s) with ease, even if you do replace the A's with @'s and the I's with 1's. The best password is 8+ characters long, not based off a dictionary word (or slang), contains variations of capital and lowercase letters, numbers, and characters.