Password Tips: An Easy Way to Use Dynamic Passwords For Online Security
With all the talk going around today about the stolen Twitter documents, security of personal accounts, and password strength, there have been quite a few posts from well-wishing security folks on ho...
Published Jul 16, 2009
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Dan,
Good point. I'd definitely suggest choosing completely random words as your root word, such as "catblog" "peruart" "smashcorn" to help minimizing brute force attacks, and then changing that root word as often as you feel comfortable, probably once/month. The two things you want to guard against are someone knowing those words and then the pattern, as you suggest. As long as they don't know both, though, then your passwords become stronger than a standard 'mary1974' password. :)
-Alan