Password best practices

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Published on 2009-05-07T03:11:19Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 2:11 UTC
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Given the recent events with a 'hacker' learning and retrying passwords from website administrators, what can we suggest to everyone about best practices when it comes to passwords?

  • use unique passwords between sites (i.e. never re-use a password)
  • words found in the dictionary are to be avoided
  • consider using words or phrases from a non-English language
  • use pass phrases and use the first letter of each word
  • l33tifying doesn't help very much

Please suggest more!

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