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samedi 12 mai 2012

How to create a strong password for facebook

Posted by Aouichi | samedi 12 mai 2012 | Category: |

A strong password is one of the most important ways to protect  your facebook account.
Here are steps you can take to create a strong password :
  • It needs to contain special characters such as @#$%^&
  • It must be at least 8 characters long.
  • It must not have any common words such as 123, password, your birth date, your login name and any words that can be found in the dictionary.
  • a variation of capitalization and small letters
If you have many facebook accounts do not use the same password.This is to make sure even if one account is hacked , your other accounts will not be affected.

You must be wondering how you are going to remember a long and complucated password like this, Well here are some steps that will help you:

First, think of a thing, date, phrase, event, place or anything that is unique only to you. It must be at least 8 characters long
Second, use the following rules to replace the regular characters with special characters. You can form your own rule.
  • Replace all the ‘a’ with @
  • Replace all the ‘s’ with $
  • Repalce any space with %
  • Replace any ‘o’ with 0
  • Replace any ‘i’ with ! 
 Finally, after creating your password and if you want to see how strong it is, go  to http://www.howsecureismypassword.net/ and write your password and it well tell you how much it would take a desktop PC to hack your password.
Mine was  about 211 quadrillion years, what was yours ?

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