Cool Password Trick

More and more applications.  More and more websites. They all ask for your password.  Password security has become more of an issue now.  You read news stories of how hackers broke into XXX website and stole people’s passwords — in fact it happened to me as well.  Unfortunately, many people use the same password in all applications which creates a sticky situation.  These hackers then tried to use the same username and password to login to other high-profile websites like facebook, hotmail, etc…

How can you create a good, well written, and secure password that you can remember — yet avoids the situation above?  Here’s a simple, cool password trick.

1) Find a password you like, for example my dog’s name Barkie

2) Replace one or two letters with a number or character. In this case Barkie becomes B@rk1e <– here’s your primary password.  I used the replacement characters @=a and 1=i, but you can do any other combination.

3) Make your custom password. Any time you visit a new website where you need to register and create a password, use the website’s name as a prefix to your password.  My preference is the first 5 characters of the website name is its easy to remember, but you can use any number of characters.  For example, if I register at AskTheAdmin.com, I would use as a password askth_B@rk1e.

And so you have it, a custom password for every website.

Kerry enjoys writing about a variety of topics.  Her favorite website is CallCatalog.com which is a reverse phone directory website.  You can also read her blog which discusses personal privacy issues.