It’s Honestly Easier To Create Strong Passwords

I find it difficult to come up with passwords that are weak because it’s so easy to make them stronger. Your length and character set are the most important things, and coming up with long passwords with 4 types of characters is simple.

You can take a favorite song of yours. Most songs are at least 8 characters, so we’re already in good shape. Take a birthday of someone people wouldn’t guess. Take two random symbols.

The numbers and symbols can be thought of as padding. You don’t have to change them every time if the name of your song is long enough.

For example:

PachelbelCanon42490()

Remembering song titles, which you’ll already know, isn’t difficult. Remembering a birthday, which you already know, isn’t difficult. Remembering two characters beyond that is not difficult.

This would take trillions of years to crack and it took me 5 seconds to come up with. Even with bruteforcing, assuming they’ve compromised your ‘birthday’ and ‘symbols’ (if you repeat them across sites this becomes more likely) the words PachelbelCanon would take ages to crack.