Good passwords
One of those recurring things: You need a password, quickly.
And you already heard that humans are bad at coming up with random passwords.
And that it is not a good idea to go to a website that gives you random passwords (they may keep track of your password). Or download a program to generate a password (it may send the password to some Bad Guy.)
However, you don’t need electronics to generate a good password; all you need is a normal die, a pen, and a piece of paper.
Write down this schema:
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
1 |
a |
g |
m |
s |
y |
5 |
2 |
b |
h |
n |
t |
z |
6 |
3 |
c |
i |
o |
u |
1 |
7 |
4 |
d |
j |
p |
v |
2 |
8 |
5 |
e |
k |
q |
w |
3 |
9 |
6 |
f |
l |
r |
x |
4 |
0 |
Roll the die twice, once for row, once for column: That’s the cell to take the next character from.
Repeat until you have the password length you want.
Done!
Remembering such a password is hard at first, but this will improve with practice.
Just keep typing it from memory as far as you feel confident, and read the remaining characters off the piece of paper that you have it on.
If you do that on a daily basis, you’ll find that you "got it" after two weeks or so.
If you are worried because the password has no upper-case letters and no special characters: These recommendations are bogus, adding another character to the password is just as effective.