{"id":794,"date":"2013-09-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=794"},"modified":"2013-09-22T09:28:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T08:28:37","slug":"2-remembering-all-those-passwords-a-little-trick-that-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/2-remembering-all-those-passwords-a-little-trick-that-works\/","title":{"rendered":"2. Remembering all those passwords – a little trick that works"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"techtipsfortradeunionists\"<\/a>There are two basic rules about passwords on the Internet:<\/p>\n

1 – Don’t use the same password more than once.<\/p>\n

2 – Make sure the password isn’t an easily-guessable word.\u00a0 Ideally, use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.<\/p>\n

So what happens when you have accounts on Amazon, Gmail, eBay, and elsewhere?\u00a0 How do you ensure a minimal level of security?<\/p>\n

One way is to write them all down somewhere — more on this later in this series — but that’s insecure by definition.<\/p>\n

Here’s a better solution: don’t create passwords — create a password formula that you always use.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s say you want to have a password for Amazon that’s different from your password on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Do this — create a password formula that could be something like this:<\/p>\n