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[Skrapha]

I find the best password to use, and to easily remember, is the phrase password. Make up a phrase you can easily remember, like "I Like To eat Chicken while riding my bike" or some other silly nonsense, and then take the first letter from each word and make it your password, "iltecwrmb", and maybe replacing letters for numbers, caps etc....

I do this for each of my accounts, while replacing a certain word with the type of account / site, to make each one a bit different.

i know this is common knowledge, and that there are better ways out there, but for myself I found this one to be the most effective and easily remembered.

[Tesunie]

JC Daxion, on 17 February 2017 - 01:42 AM, said:

Honestly.. if you don't log into an account much.. Its not easy to remember a PW..

I have variations of essentially the same password. Then I assign each one a security level depending upon how complex it is. The more secure the password, the less often I use it.

An example: (None of these are my passwords for the record.)
I like triangles (and/or the number 3) and birds. I can come up with Tribird, 3feathers or peckerthr33 are possible variations off a route theme. From there, I choose which may be best with the most variations, in this case Peckerthr33, Pecker3 or Peckerthree. All the "same" password, but different versions of it. I if I forget a password, I only have so many variations to try before I'll eventually hit the correct one. Of course, as time goes on, I develop even more diverse codes, such as Woodpecker3 or R3dp3ck3rth33.

If I was given enough time, I could probably come up with even more diverse passcodes than that from that concept. I might even eventually branch off into another path of possible codes once I can't think of any more reasonable variations and start the process all over again, or when I have an account I need to keep even more secure...


There are lots of ways to make secure passwords. Which way you use is completely up to you.

[JC Daxion]

Yea.. i know folks that do that too.. I kinda did that for a bitt.. but over the years and 100's of accounts, it is just far easier to make them totally unique and makes me sleep better.. Because in that since someone could try that sorta stuff and crack it. Though why someone would trying to log in as me on "random game site" is beyond me.. I only use a few PW's near daily, the rest i can never remember.

But for security, its better to use nonsensical PassPhrases, and capitalize randomly while using numbers or symbols. burGer2fRy% or don'tfoRg3tga$&oiL for example.. Hence the memorization delema... (no that is not a PW i use.. i'm just hungry)

Edited by JC Daxion, 18 February 2017 - 03:57 AM.