With all of the different websites out there that require a user account, I’ve started getting lazy with coming up with yet another new password. And then it’s hard to remember which passwords go with which website!

Here is an interesting article about password security from technet that shows you the time it takes to brute force passwords:

Kind of scary how easy it is right?

Well I recently read about a tip that I’ve started employing. Basically you make up a code for the password that involves some personal information about yourself and somehow incorporates the website.

For example, for the website http://www.twitter.com you could have a code like this:

the first letter of the website – t
the last 2 digits of the year you were born – 79
your middle name in all caps – DON
the last letter of the website – r

so your password for twitter.com would be something like “t79DONr” and you can add more to make this password longer if you’d like. So for every website you sign up you would employ this same method and now you’ll have complex passwords that are easy to remember!