Comment Sing your password in numbers. (Score 1) 895
As a password when I was a wee lad, I used to sing "Marry had a little lamb" while typing out it's corresponding telephone notation on the keyboard numpad. It was a suprisingly effective way to remember a huge string of numbers and symbols. I remember it as clear as day:
Grab a handset and dial: 65456665556**6545666655654
Good luck cracking that password.
And just for fun, here's a nifty grown-up password system I use that ensures an easy to remember password that is different for everything you visit:
1.) Pick a word. - ex: apple
2.) L33t-a-fie it - ex: 4pp13
3.) Take the first three letters of the domain/service you're using and add them somehow. - (ex: slashdot, gmail, amazon)
- If you're visiting GMail, your password becomes: gma4pp13
- If you're visiting slashdot your password becomes: sla4pp13
- If you're visiting Amazon your password becomes: ama4pp13
Now you have an easily memorable password that is different for every single place you use it, yet very secure and garbled.
* For added swank, use a foreign base word.
* You could also disburse your destination letters differently. IE, gma4pp13 becomes g4mpap13
Grab a handset and dial: 65456665556**6545666655654
Good luck cracking that password.
And just for fun, here's a nifty grown-up password system I use that ensures an easy to remember password that is different for everything you visit:
1.) Pick a word. - ex: apple
2.) L33t-a-fie it - ex: 4pp13
3.) Take the first three letters of the domain/service you're using and add them somehow. - (ex: slashdot, gmail, amazon)
- If you're visiting GMail, your password becomes: gma4pp13
- If you're visiting slashdot your password becomes: sla4pp13
- If you're visiting Amazon your password becomes: ama4pp13
Now you have an easily memorable password that is different for every single place you use it, yet very secure and garbled.
* For added swank, use a foreign base word.
* You could also disburse your destination letters differently. IE, gma4pp13 becomes g4mpap13