Elite, Know-It-All Gawker Commenters Shockingly Know Nothing About Password Security
http://www.switched.com/2010/12/14/gawker-most-common-password/
People are stupid about passwords because they want something they can remember. I solved that for myself long ago -- I got a brand-new address book, one with an alphabetical page index, and I've been listing sites and the passwords I use for them in it ever since. As for the passwords to use, get something like Daniel Harms's Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia, or Alberto Manguel's Dictionary of Imaginary Places, or anything that contains the Graeco-Latin names of dinosaurs or living animals and plants or that sort of thing, or a work on angels or theology or whatever that has plenty of terms that go with its subject, and use them, plus numbers of your choice and, where applicable, special characters such as @ or # for your passwords. Use one such password for any one site, but not for any other, so that each password is used for only one site. That way, if they ferret out one of your passwords, they won't have access to your sensitive information on other sites. Keep each password in an address book of the sort you can get at any stationer's or at Office Depot or Office Max, and keep it in a place close to where you use your computer (a physical location that nobody knows about except maybe your attorney, in case something happens to you). Look up the password when you need it to access this or that site. That way, you won't have the problem of forgetting passwords, but none of your passwords will be obvious or resemble your other passwords.
People are stupid about passwords because they want something they can remember. I solved that for myself long ago -- I got a brand-new address book, one with an alphabetical page index, and I've been listing sites and the passwords I use for them in it ever since. As for the passwords to use, get something like Daniel Harms's Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia, or Alberto Manguel's Dictionary of Imaginary Places, or anything that contains the Graeco-Latin names of dinosaurs or living animals and plants or that sort of thing, or a work on angels or theology or whatever that has plenty of terms that go with its subject, and use them, plus numbers of your choice and, where applicable, special characters such as @ or # for your passwords. Use one such password for any one site, but not for any other, so that each password is used for only one site. That way, if they ferret out one of your passwords, they won't have access to your sensitive information on other sites. Keep each password in an address book of the sort you can get at any stationer's or at Office Depot or Office Max, and keep it in a place close to where you use your computer (a physical location that nobody knows about except maybe your attorney, in case something happens to you). Look up the password when you need it to access this or that site. That way, you won't have the problem of forgetting passwords, but none of your passwords will be obvious or resemble your other passwords.