We all know that you shouldn't use your name as your password, and you shouldn't use the same password over and over. How to build better passwords, and remember them? "PC World magazine" sugests starting with an easy to remember password phrase; a more than one word base is much harder to hack than a single word. Then insert a capital letter or two, and turn one or more of the letters into numbers.
Here's an example: The password phrase "dogsherman" becomes DogSherman, and then
D0gSh3rman (insert a zero for the o and a 3 for the e). This is now my basic password.
To make it unique for the various web sites I regularly use, I'll insert an identifying letter or letters. So for my Facebook account, D0gSh3rman becomes D0gfaSh3rman (inserting "fa" in the middle) and my Wells Fargo online account password becomes D0gweSh3rman ("we" inserted in between the two words).
Hope this helps - how many times has a patron asked us what to use for a password? And gone ahead and used their name?? Now I must get busy and put this advice into practice myself!
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