On Sun, Nov 30, 2014, at 05:02 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I get why network admins and CIO types live and breath security and > hardened passwords, but the average user has gone mad. I like leading > alpha characters in combination with an old phone number, with a few > non-alpha characters, leading and trailing. Thus a password that I can > remember, but not something easy to guess. Example: I worked at Empire > Blue Cross 20 years ago. My phone was x3699. 212 476 3699. Thus say, > =EmpBC3699& would be fairly good, and I could recall it without writing > it down. One could say that 3699 is too easy, perhaps, buts its a > quick example of a easy analog way to create a password which is ok, and > easy to remember.
But according to this article; https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/choosing_secure.html if an attacker did have some of this personal info your password would be easy to crack.
