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[Lou Duchez]

cracked.com, of all places, has some good suggestions on passwords:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18962_5-things-we-all-do-that-make-hackers-lives-incredibly-easy.html

For password generation, I've taken some tips from that article:

1)    If your favorite song is, say, "Wake Me up Before You Go-Go", 
abbreviate it to either "WMuBYGG" or perhaps "WaMeupBeYoGoGo".  You can 
use that as a root word for all your passwords.

2)    Add a suffix to the root depending on exactly what the password is 
for, such as "homeemail" or "workemail" or 
"secretpornsitethewifedoesntknowabout".

That's pretty uncrackable by virtue of sheer length, yet very memorable 
to you.  cracked.com advises going a step further, and instead of 
"homeemail", use a suffix of "fortawesome" or some other unguessable 
reference that you would get but random hackers would not.  That way, 
even if someone somehow finds out about "WaMeupBeYoGoGoworkemail", they 
can't extrapolate and get your home password.  (By that logic, instead 
of "workemail", maybe you should use a suffix more like "shamepalace".)



> Well, crap. Sorry all - some no-good-nik likes my email just as much as I
> do. Password is changed now. I guess "password" wasn't the best of
> passwords after all...?
>
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> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Justin Reiners <justin at hotlinesinc.com>wrote:
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>> Spam alert!
>> On Nov 5, 2012 8:50 PM, "Greg Gerke" <ggerke at gmail.com> wrote:
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