Let’s face it, until biometric forms of identification become commonplace we are left with no choice but to use passwords.
Passwords at work, passwords for your email accounts, passwords for social networks, passwords for online subscriptions, passwords for utilities, passwords to protect documents, passwords to keep your finances safe… passwords are ubiquitous.
An average user has 20 passwords, according to KLB School (I don’t know where they got their data from). How practical or feasible is to remember 20 combinations?
The second problem is that the easier to remember a password is, the easier to crack it becomes.
Follow these 4 guidelines to create simple, easy to remember, yet hard to crack passwords:
