We take security very seriously at Intersites. Passwords are a key piece of the security puzzle. Common or easy-to-guess passwords are a serious problem. Fortunately, it’s easy to come up with a strong password. The process is easy. Instead of using your child’s, pet’s or spouse’s name as your password – all of which are weak and easy to guess – use them in a sentence, then use the first letter of each word in the sentence for the password.
For example, instead of using “hunter” as your password,
make up a sentence like “my black lab hunter loves playing frisbee”.
Now, take the first letter of each word ('mblhlpf') and use that for your
password.
Another variation on the same concept is to take a favorite affirmation and use it to make your password: “the early bird gets the worm” becomes “tebgtw”. For an even more secure password, substitute a number or other symbol for one or more of the characters in the password. For example, replace any I's in your password with ! and any S's with $. A more secure version of "Iwhasfl" ("I will have a salad for lunch") is "!wha$fl".
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bandsxbands
Feb 2, 2010 at 9:11pm
My friend and I were recently discussing about how technology has become so
integrated in our day to day lives. Reading this post makes me think back
to that debate we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have
all become.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just
hope that as memory becomes cheaper, the possibility of uploading our
brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things
I really wish I could encounter in my lifetime.
Stacy Sims
Feb 2, 2010 at 10:40pm
Your site was extremely interesting, especially since I was searching for thoughts on this subject last Thursday.
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