Open Sesame!
Posted on | March 31, 2008 |
Your personal and financial information is only as strong as your passwords.
We’ve written about this on the blog before here and here but the best passwords include numbers, letters and symbols (i.e. 5RT!sm345@). Why? Because these take much longer to hack.
Lifehacker, a personal productivity blog, has also just reviewed a free online tool called The Password Meter. “The Password Meter web utility tests the strength of your passwords as you type it, scoring your password strength based on a number of positive and negative password attributes.” Give it a shot:
- The Password Meter [via Lifehacker]
Have a site or software you’d like to recommend? Post it in the Comments section below!
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