About buiding strong passwords. For my fellow WordPress bloggers
This morning’s most e-mailed article in the on-line version of the New York Times is Nicole Perlroth’s “how to devise passwords that drive hackers away”. It is a somewhat apocalyptic piece that assures you you will get hacked and provides some standard advice (“forget the dictionary”) on constructing and managing strong passwords.
It leaves out my favorite technique: go global. Use a truly foreign (foreign to you) name, preferably someone you know so you can remember it. Consider the names of the delegates to the United Nations:
- Belarus: Zoya Kolontai
- Bhutan: Lhatu Wangchuk
- Brunei Darussalam: Latif Tuah
- Burundi: Herménégilde Niyonzima
Notice that we have not left countries beginning with the letter B yet and we’ve already got some winners. If you knew Mr. Niyonzima—and you yourself were not from Burundi, why not use that character string as the basis for a password? You won’t forget it because you know…
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