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How to Choose a Secure and Easy Password

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Choose a Secure and Easy Password
Choose a Secure and Easy Password

Having a good and safe password is very important to keeping your identification safe. The more complex the password you have, the harder it will be for people to break it.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
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  1. Step 1

    You should not use words that have a identity with your name or any other personal references. It is not wise to use your name, wife's/husband's name, street address or phone number.

  2. Step 2

    Try mixing in numbers, letters and symbols for your password. Also, use upper case and lower case letters. Doing this technique will make it very hard for someone to figure your password out.

  3. Step 3

    You will also need a way to remember your password. You should do this be having your password be the first letters of a sentence. Try using something like "My wife is wonderful and I have 2 beautiful kids. (password: MwiWaIh2bk).

  4. Step 4

    If you can, try to just remember the password without writing it down. But, if you do write down the password make sure you place it in a secure place and don't write what the password is for.

  5. Step 5

    Stay away from using the same password for everything. if someone does figure out your password it will be very easy to take over your life.

  6. Step 6

    If you want to, you can change your passwords every few weeks or months.

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