Reply to post: Reuse of passwords

Human memory, or the lack of it, is the biggest security bug on the 'net

Duncan Macdonald

Reuse of passwords

Like many people I have a number of accounts - but many of them are for sites like the register where the consequences of a hack are insignificent. For such sites I often reuse simple passwords - for other sites with financial data (eg PayPal) I use strong passwords that are unique to each site.

An easy way to generate fairly strong memorable passwords - concatenate a car registration number, a friends name and the name on a bit of equipment.

eq XNO123SWendyHUDL2 (not a password that I have ever used!!!)

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