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TheGreatNoodles posted...

Write it down on a physical notepad.

There's two problems with that, though.

1) If you lose the physical document, you can potentially be fucked (this is how I almost lost my 20-year old e-mail account earlier this year).

2) If you leave your written password somewhere that other people can find it, they now know your password as clearly as they would via hacking or social engineering.



Raddest_Chad posted...

iirc, choosing four random words is the ultimate password.

Ironically, thispasswordissecure is harder for robots to crack than a bunch of random letters and numbers.

Most of my passwords are 2-3 random unconnected words, followed by 2-3 random numbers, followed by 1-2 random numbers.

Though I've also played around with mnemonics - so, for instance, you take a memorable sentence (like, say, "four random words is the ultimate password"), and reduce it down to only the first letters (so "frwisup"). The positive is that it can be easy to remember while hard to back-engineer, the downside is that if it's too iconic to your personality, people who know you well enough to guess it.
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