I found a technique you can use to secure your important accounts online.  Memorable strong passwords can be created in minutes. Farhad Manjoo, Slate Magazine Author, presents the best system I have seen for secure password creation.  This is an easy to remember online strong password creation method.  This is great information and I offfer part of the article here.

“I found a foolproof technique to create passwords that are near-impossible to crack yet easy to remember. Even better, it’ll take just five minutes of your time. Ready?
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Start with an original but memorable phrase. For this exercise, let’s use these two sentences: I like to eat bagels at the airport and My first Cadillac was a real lemon so I bought a Toyota. The phrase can have something to do with your life or it can be a random collection of words – just make sure it’s something you can remember. That’s the key: Because a mnemonic is easy to remember, you don’t have to write it down anywhere. (If you can’t remember it without writing it down, it’s not a good mnemonic.) This reduces the chance that someone will guess it if he gets into your computer or your e-mail. What’s more, a relatively simple mnemonic can be turned into a fanatically difficult password.

Which brings us to Step 2: Turn your phrase into an acronym. Be sure to use some numbers and symbols and capital letters, too. I like to eat bagels at the airport becomes Ilteb@ta, and My first Cadillac was a real lemon so I bought a Toyota is M1stCwarlsIbaT.

That’s it – you’re done. These mnemonic passwords are hard to forget, but they contain no guessable English words. You can even create pass phrases for specific sites that are coded with a hint about their purpose. A sentence like It’s 20 degrees in February, so I use Gmail lets you set a new Gmail password every month and still never forget it: i90diSsIuG for September, i30diMsIuG for March, etc. (These aren’t realistic temperatures; they’re the month-number multiplied by 10.)”

Read more of the article at Slate.com here.

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