Try making it longer rather than strange. Make your password long not cryptic. For good measure to pass stupid password tests put in a capital and number but that doesn’t make it harder to crack. They are still going try every combination including those characters just in case.
b7^w3@ ( 400 ms ) P@s5wor! ( 9 hours ) P@ssw0rd ( Still 9 hours ) thisisalongbutsimplepassword ( 3 SEXTILLION YEARS ) cottoncandyman ( 51 Years ) https://howsecureismypassword.net/ <https://howsecureismypassword.net/> See if he can crack something long but easy for you to type Sincerely, Joshaven Potter Google Hangouts: [email protected] Cell & SMS: 1-517-607-9370 [email protected] > On May 25, 2016, at 4:36 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > > My oldest son is a computer security specialist / forensic guy. > > He was telling my my super complicated password was not so secure. > He cracked it pretty easy. He suggested I add an alt code. > > So I did. Now, neither one of us can open the file. > Guess alt codes in passwords for some Office products cause big problems. > > Arrgh.....
