Chelsea Girl has a great post about privacy: the magic bullet newsletter: or, how to remain an X file.

I know, I know. You haven’t changed your passwords recently.

Did you ever email or IM your password to a friend, to make a onetime change when you were out of town? Time to change it.

Do you use a really simple word, like ‘canoe?’ A dear blogger friend used to use that as a password . Then I found out about it. Not anymore, he doesn’t.

IMHO, the best technique is called a compound password. You take two simple words, and interleave them.

Time to change them! Have fun with these password generators:

Secure Password Generator (Winguides)
Randpass.com
Password Generator (Bytes Interactive)
Java Password Generator for ‘pronounceable’ passwords

Make it even more random by adding numbers, making some letters uppercase, adding symbols, etc.

Be careful out there.

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