What tips does the CEO of SplashData give for creating a unique password?
Megain Slain which is the CEO of SplashData says it’s best to have differente password for all of your accounts… If one of your accounts gets hacked into, the possibility of your other accounts being in jeopardy is high if you have the same password for all of your account. But if you have different passwords for all of your accounts, one password gets broken, and your other accounts are still safe. Mergain goes to advice on how to created complex passwords; one way of doing this is thinking of passwords as paraphrases such as ‘dog eats bone’ and add different characters to the sentence such as slash, underscore, exclamation marks, etc… Your password will look something like this: ‘dog_eats_bones!’
There are other ways of making your passwords more complicated, such as usingt he first letter of each word within a sentence and adding capital and characters to make it even harder to breat. For example, take the sentence ‘my cat sleeps under the tree’ and you created McSUtT32#
Why are passwords important?
Passwords are important because we store so much personal information within our devices as well as in the internet. The damage that a person can do with your information is endless. It can go far beyond just identity theft. But imagine the information you transmit in your emails to your closed friends and family, or even business wise; if someone can get a hold of that information, it can harm you extensively. Also, when you bank online, would you want anyone knowing how to access your account? They can make purchases, clean out your account, and maybe even open another account under your credentials.
If we don’t protect ourselves with passwords, we are hading our lives to strangers that can make it a living hell tryng to get it back.
– Bianca Moura
