Most people tend to use passwords that they can rememeber easily. If you take a deeper look many use the same password for most of their password protected activities which is a high security risk. Break one, get access to all.
The article Build a better Password gives a short introduction to password formats. A password can either be something you know, something you have or something you are.
The author recomments that users follow three simple guidelines to make their passwords more secure: Increase the lenght of the password by adding more information, Eliminate spaces and add special characters to make dictionary attacks worthless.
Those are simple measures that can tremendously boost your security. Of course, no password is 100% secure.
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