You’ve probably seen applications for generating passwords. For those who have not, this is how the process actually works:

• application for generating passwords is downloaded
• user runs the application and presses the “generate” button
• a string appears that looks something like this: I8kjH9s&ER1()G
• this string is used as a password for his Mail / Facebook / Twitter / …

And now, the user has two options:

1. he’ll forget his new password immediately
2. to ensure that the new password is not forgotten, he’ll write it down on a sticker and put it on the computer monitor. If the user has other computer-generated passwords, he will place this “my email” sticker  on top of the existing stickers.

So what’s the deal? Why am I telling you this? Because in a moment, we’re going to learn how to create secure passwords – and you’ll see that you are going to change passwords more often than you have previously. Because creating passwords can be fun.

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