WAers Need To Know This For Safety Online
Last Update: September 26, 2016
Hello Waers,
The only requirements most of the time for a password is to be at least eight characters. Longer password is much better and it is very effective and strong if it has a combination of capital and small letters, numbers, and special characters found on the keyboard's top-row numbers. Here is why:
- if you use a lower case letters for the 1st character, hackers are only concerned about 26 choices to crack it
- adding a capital letter as an option will add another 26 choices
- adding digits will add another 10 choices
- adding symbols will add another 32 choices
Cracking password with only 26 options versus 94 options multiplied by at least eight characters, your password will not be easy to crack by cyber criminals.
Be careful also where you are saving your password. Have a small notebook handy and keep it in a well secured place in the house.
Hope you will be taken care of this.
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Freedomseekr
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Great advice! I do the same, I make mine impossible to figure out and keep mine in a handy little notebook as well. It takes me a long time to ever remember my own passwords...sometimes never, lol.
Another thing is I'd rather keep it completely separate from the computer myself, I know some that keep their passwords on a list in their computer somewhere in there documents or files...but whose to say the computer won't get hacked into and the hackers find a bonus of all your passwords...
At least that's my thoughts...maybe I'm paranoid, but no problem so far in at least around 8 years or so since I started using a computer.
Although having such long, impossible passwords can be rather funny when bringing it in to the repair shop, lol. They look at you rather strange when you keep on going and going....lol :)
Best wishes :) ~Sherry
Another thing is I'd rather keep it completely separate from the computer myself, I know some that keep their passwords on a list in their computer somewhere in there documents or files...but whose to say the computer won't get hacked into and the hackers find a bonus of all your passwords...
At least that's my thoughts...maybe I'm paranoid, but no problem so far in at least around 8 years or so since I started using a computer.
Although having such long, impossible passwords can be rather funny when bringing it in to the repair shop, lol. They look at you rather strange when you keep on going and going....lol :)
Best wishes :) ~Sherry
theresroth
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I memorized my paypal password and wrote it down nowhere.
It fits the requirements described here, is random, and has absolutely nothing to do with me.
Thanks for bringing these points up!
It fits the requirements described here, is random, and has absolutely nothing to do with me.
Thanks for bringing these points up!