How to Create a Universal Password

Tired of trying to keep track of all your passwords, and still not being able to sign into your accounts? Now you can create a password that can be used for all of your accounts!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• computer

1. A good password has two components: easy for you to remember, hard for others to figure out. First you will want to brainstorm ideas for the main part of your password. For example most passwords have a baseword with other secondary things attatched to it improve the strength of the password. OK lets make up a basic password: banana123. "banana" would be the baseword and the other "secondary" things would be the "123".

2. Take a peice of paper and write down obscure things that have to do with yourself. They should be things that are obvious to you, but that aren't necesarily obvious to others. For example your childhood pets, mothers maiden name, location of favorite vacations, hometown, hobbies, favorite authors, actors, movies, books ect...

3. Rule out words that are too long, difficult to spell, TOO obvious or TOO obscure.

4. Now add something secondary. Many times people will choose a series of numbers that they will remember, but that isn't too obvious. Maybe your high school locker combo or your fathers birth date?

5. An example of finished password, not actual password:
   clooney(favorite actor)121314(highschool locker combo)
   clooney121314

Tips & Warnings

• If the account doesnt accept numbers in the password use letters instead (ie: your initials backwards, homestates abbreviation)
• Having a universal password can make t easier to get into your accounts. Make sure this passsword is complex enough to keep your info safe!

[doban]

on 4/4/2009 Using a universal password has been a big help to me

[revisitingnixon]

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-Rich

[Lung]

on 8/1/2007 Also, be sure to remember to make them case sensitive and add a extra symbol like "!" or "&."