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Old 04-30-2011, 12:39 PM   #25
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by russellmz00 View Post
it's just better to use a simple algorithm for your passwords: take an old phone number, add the last three or four letters of the site's domain name, or the first three or part of it reversed, and have the last letter in caps. add a special character at the end.

so:
2175559876eaD+

there: you have an easy to remember, secure password, and no postit notes to steal. the only problem is when a site doesn't like certain special characters.
I use a system like this for some of my passwords - the only problem is that one of my banks used to keep prompting me to change my password, which interfered with my system. (And I don't think that requiring people to change their password every month makes things more secure...it just causes people to have passwords like "PasswordA," replaced next month by "PasswordB".
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