Importance of having a strong password
Every day we leave our homes and go to school or work. But before we leave we make sure that our home is protected so in the evening we would find it the same as we left. But why do we still consider that protecting our personal data is less important than our home? Would we really not care if someone would hack in to our accounts and steal all the personal information? Of course that we would care and that is why one of the most important (and free) measures of protecting personal data is using strong passwords.
What is a strong password? Usually, to create your password you can use letters that are case sensitive (aA, bB, cC, etc.), numbers (0,1,2,3,4, etc.) and various symbols (!,#,$,%,-,_,=,+, etc.). In order for your password to be strong it should not be a dictionary word. Rather, use a random combination of letters, numbers and symbols and just write it down on a piece of paper. For example, it could look like this dg14JRb_Ex or Gw9!sqpDF. Moreover, it is strongly recommended not to use the same password for different accounts. You can simplify this by thinking of a pattern and then inserting some letter according what account it is for e.g. if it is Gmail – use G (dg14JRb_ExG), Yahoo mail – Y(dg14JRb_ExY). And do not worry that it sounds hard to remember. After a couple of times your password will sound naturally to you.
Another great technique of creating passwords:
You probably have a dozen or even more accounts including social networking, banking, email, blogging. There are programs that keep information of all your accounts under one password but of course there is nothing more safe than oldfashioned pencil-and-paper way. A couple of minutes will save you from a horrible headache later on. You know what they say – better safe than sorry.
