Choosing a good Password !

Good passwords are passwords that are difficult to guess. In general, good passwords:

• Have both uppercase and lowercase letters;

• Have digits and/or punctuation characters as well as letters;

• Are easy to remember, so they don't have to be written down;

• Are seven or eight characters long;

• Can be typed quickly, so somebody cannot follow what you type by looking over your shoulder.

It's easy to pick a good password. Here are some suggestions:

Take two short words and combine them with a special character or a number, like robot4my or eye-con. 

Put together an acronym that's special to you, like Notfsw (None of this fancy stuff works) or AUpegc (All UNIX programmers eat green cheese). 
(Of course, robot4my, eye-con, Notfsw, and AUpegc are now all bad passwords because you've read them here.) 

And, don't forget, if it's in some dictionary, it's not suitable for use as a password! Password hackers often use compiled dictionary files to work out peoples passwords...

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