Your Password Is Too Easy!

I was just reading an interesting thread here about
passwords and I thought I'd create another thread
to show newbies how to make their password stronger
without changing it that much so that they won't
forget it.

Most people get their accounts hacked
because they use easy-to-guess passwords.

So let me show you something...

Let's say for example that your password is:

johnwarren232

John Warren is your name and the numbers mean
23rd February, your date of birth.

A person who doesn't know you won't guess your password,
but a person who knows your name, and your date of birth
can figure it out quite easily.

Some people will use capital letters to make it
stronger, like this:

JohnWarren232

This is good, but you can still make it much stronger
than that without making it too difficult to remember.
All you have to do is replace some letters with numbers.
Replace:

'O' with 0
'E' with 3

And you'll have this:

J0hnWarr3n232

As you can see the password now is much, much stronger
than the first one, and it's not too difficult to remember
either.

Of course I still wouldn't recommend using your name
or your date of birth in your password either. Best thing
to do IMO is create bogus words and numbers that only
you understand.

Cheers.