Our passwords give us access to a number of very valuable
resources. They control access to our bank accounts, photos of
our families, email correspondence, and all kinds of other
information. As valuable as all this information is, it is
amazing how little effort most people put into making sure they
have good passwords. Here are six password resolutions for 2009
to help protect your data with more secure passwords. 1. Resolve
to use different passwords on each website. There are a few ways
to do this. The most secure is to use a completely different
randomly generated password on each site. If you use a password
management program like 1Passwd this isn’t too difficult.
Another option is to create a scheme that allows you to modify
your password slightly based on each site. For example, if you
use a base password of $5*9twoop, you could use $5*9twoop6 for
Amazon.com, $5*9twoop5 for Yahoo.com and $5*9twoop3 for wsj.com.
The last number is just the number of characters in the domain
name that comes before the