Do Yourself A Favor , Make a Strong Password !!!

sanket salavi
4 min readOct 29, 2020

After a some research and searching , I came back with some awesome

tips and tricks to make your PASSWORD very strong .

Lets start from title itself ,

Do yourself a favor, make a strong password. Very strong password !!!

Definition of a strong password TIP :

  1. More than 8 characters in length
  2. Use upper case Alphabet
  3. Use lower case Alphabet
  4. Use numbers
  5. Use special characters

DO NOT USE:

  1. - DO NOT USE known first names BY THEMSELVES
  2. - DO NOT USE known last names BY THEMSELVES
  3. - DO NOT USE “password” for password
  4. - DO NOT USE leave blank the password
  5. - DO NOT USE “abc123” for a password
  6. - DO NOT USE words or names that are in most Western Dictionaries or encyclopedias

EXAMPLES of passwords to use or create :

  1. Suppose You have a pet named JACKY DON’T USE THIS BY ITSELF — INSTEAD DO THIS
  2. Jacki0380$#@! (explanation lets say Jacky’s make name is “Jacki”; then you were Born in 2003 so take the “03”; lets say your “mother or father” was born in 1980 so take the “80” and append that number to the end of yours; you get “0380”; Now add that to “Jacki” you get “Jenni0380”; NOW lets say you were born in the town that had the “zip code” or the “last four of your social” or “the last 4 digits of your phone number” are “4321”; TAKE THAT AND CAPITALIZE THOSE NUMBERS. HOW do you capitalize those numbers???? Look on your keyboard on your laptop or PC. Hold down the Shift-key and it’s the “SYMBOLS or SPECIAL CHARACTERS” above those numbers. Thus “4321” = $#@! Type that enough times and you’ll remember it. so now add them all together and you get.
  3. “Jacki0380$#@!” as your VERY STRONG PASSWORD.
  4. lets do one more thing change this “ i ” by this “ ! ” .
  5. A last tip, if you work somewhere that makes you change the password every 90-days or 60-days. you can do this .
  6. At the end of that VERY STRONG PASSWORD — add a letter. And change only that letter. Most systems will allow this. Some systems will “not” because it is “too similar to the previous one”. Thus, so when it comes time to change the password you just change that last letter and for example I give myself a tip on a “post-it-note” in front of my Monitor so I know what alphabet letter I’m on. “Jacki0380$#@!A” Note: I added and “A” ON THE END; so in 90-days I’ll change it to “Jacki0380$#@!B” then after 90-days “Jacki0380$#@!C” etc, etc, etc…
  7. Where your WORK or COMPANY system only allows big changes in password and does not accept this last letter change. Go through the colors of the Rainbow or numbers written out. E.g. “Jacki0380$#@!RED”; “Jacki0380$#@!BLUE”; “Jacki0380$#@!PURPLE” …. so NOW just provide your self a tip as to what color you’re on, on your monitor. Remember: any body that thinks they can hack your password has to brute force the first part of it.
  8. You can also mix it up by putting the Alphabet letter in the FRONT or COLOR in the FRONT. E.g. “AJacki0380$#@!” “BJacki0380$#@!” “CJacki0380$#@!”… or “REDJacki0380$#@!” “BLUEJacki0380$#@!” “PURPLEJacki0380$#@!”
  9. ANOTHER TECHNIQUE many people use is to use Numbers & Special characters in place of Alphabets and add that to the technique above. Add this to the “schema” above and you have a VERY VERY STRONG PASSWORD.
  10. E.g. “P@$$w0rd” = “Password” or “ThrEE” = “Thr33″ or “$h!t!H@t3^” = “Shit I HateU
  11. where the Exclamation point ! is the upside down “i” and the “@ = a”; “$=S” “E=3”; “^=U”; “< = C ”.
  12. This prevents people from hacking your password using a technique called “Brute Force”.
  13. If you have more Tricks and Tips , Share with us in comment section .

Hope you get something new .

stay blessed …

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sanket salavi

Investigator of nerdy stuff !! Programmer , Linux super user , developer ,hacks !!