The popularity of passwords as a means of authentication is still not waning, so advice on how to opt for passwords that are hard to guess and crack is always timely.

Choosing passwords

For one, avoid the most often used passwords.

SplashData’s most recent list of the top 100 worst passwords (of the past year) contains many of the usual suspects (“123456”, “password”, and “qwerty”), but also shows that using common words, personal names, expressions, expletives, consecutive number strings, and one’s year of birth as password is a bad idea.

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