The jokes from the University of Wyoming's website are funny, but also helpful. Password security remains a common problem for PC users. Do you have any passwords on major "Bad Passwords" lists? Hackers love to hack into the databases of popular websites with enormous user lists and post the users' passwords. Just recently, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and other major companies had to work hard to reassure their site users that their passwords had not been misued - just revealed.
A simple solution is to use a Password Generator. I describe how to use one in my latest article, "Using a Password Generator."
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Rayna H. Battle