Tech Tip of the Day:

When choosing a password are you concerned about picking an appropriate one that you'll be able to remember? It's a tough, but important process! Here's some tips: 

• Use a mix of alphabetical and numeric characters.
• Use a mixture of upper- and lowercase; passwords are very often case sensitive.
• Use symbols if the system allows (spaces shouldn't be used as some applications may trim them away)
• Use a combination of letters and numbers, or a phrase like "many colors" using only the consonants, e.g., mnYc0l0rz or a misspelled phrase, e.g., 2HotPeetzas or ItzAGurl .
• Pick something obscure:
• an odd character in an otherwise familiar term, such as phnybon instead of funnybone;
• a combination of two unrelated words like cementhat
• An acronym for an easy to remember quote or phrase
• a deliberately misspelled term, e.g., Wdn-G8 (Wooden Gate) or HersL00kn@U (Here's looking at you).
• Replace a letter with another letter, symbol or combination, but don’t be too obvious about it. Replacing o with 0 or a with 2 or i with 1 is something that hackers just expect. It is definitely better than nothing, but replacing 0 with () would be stronger as it makes your password longer and is not as obvious
• An easily phonetically pronounceable nonsense word, e.g., RooB-Red or good-eits .
• Two words separated by a non-alphabetic, non-numeric, or punctuation character, e.g., PC%Kat or dog,~1#

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