• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    The trick is using something you can easily remember but also not obvious. For example: take your favorite book, pick the first sentence of the first chapter and change vowels with numbers. There, super easy to remember password, but almost impossible to guess.

    Instead, you can use anything: the second sentence of the book, the name of your favourite song (or songs if the song is just one word), the lyrics of that song…

    Just something that is easily accessible in case you forget but nobody could ever guess

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      This and similar advice always reminds me of - IIRC - one of the Halo novels, which briefly featured a character logging in to read his corporate email. To do so he had to enter his password, ThereOnceWasAGirl; but he, the fool, accidentally entered ThereOncewasAGirl.

      If it wasn’t Halo, it was a similar type of story and this seemed an odd detail to include.