Bin Puny Passwords

There’s lost of critiscism of weak passwords, “don’t use this...and don’t use that”...but how should you choose a password? It’s easier than you think to create memorable but unguessable passwords. And because of the possible number of combinations, such a password would take a lot of computing power to crack.

Here’s an example. Choose a word or phrase that you can relate to the subject you need the password for:
myownpc
then at random make at least 1 letter upper case
myowNpc
and replace at least 1 other letter with a number.
my0wNpc
Make sure that the total number of characters is not less than 8 characters long.
my0wNpc8
To make it extra strong you can replace yet another letter with an ascii character.
m!0wNpc8

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