Do You Really Need a Password You Can Barely Remember?
Think of a word. A password. Make it at least eight characters long, but no more than 12. Don’t repeat any characters more than twice. Make sure it has at least one letter, and one number. In fact, it has to start with a number. You can’t use a user name or any password you’ve tried in the past. And finally, you have to use one of these characters somewhere in your password: ~!@#$%^&*()-_+={}[]\|;:/?.,<>.
And try to make it memorable. You shouldn’t write it down, but you may need it again in a few months, when you come back to the website.
Feeling flummoxed? Security experts tell us that we’re supposed to make our passwords hard to guess, but some websites take a cruel delight in forcing us to come up with impossible-to-guess (or remember) passwords.
The requirements above are for a real website. They were written by security geeks at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency for people who want to sign up online for the agency’s Trusted Traveler program , a way for frequent fliers to skirt long immigration lines.
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