Create secure passwords to keep your identity safe Choosing more
secure passwords will help keep your identity safe on the
internet. This article and the companion video will show you how
to create secure, easy-to-remember passwords. Table of Contents
Step 1: Choose a phrase You can create a more secure password by
starting with a simple phrase. For example, let's use a quote
from Ogden Nash: "Happiness is having a scratch for every itch."
If we use the first letter of each word, and substitute 4 for
"for", we get: Step 2: Add special characters This is a
reasonably strong password but we can improve it a bit by adding
some special characters: Step 3: Associate it with a website We
can use our new password on several different websites by adding
a prefix or suffix with a mnemonic link to a particular site.
Let's use the first letter and the next two consonants in the
site name. Just to add a bit more randomness we'll alternate
upper-case and lower case, and if the first character in the
site name is a vowel w