My old IT mentor taught me password security in a gas station parking lot

Back in 2015, my first IT manager Dave pulled me aside after I set the office WiFi password to "password123". He said "Ruby, if you're gonna be lazy about this, at least make it funny. Use a whole sentence with spaces and a number." We spent 10 minutes in his beat up Ford F-150 coming up with passphrases from movie quotes. I still use that method today for all my accounts. Anyone else have a coworker who dropped some unexpected wisdom on you?

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alice_kim1mo ago

Did your friend's mentor also teach them in a car, or was it somewhere weirder?

charlienelson1mo ago

That's actually a solid bit of advice right there. Passphrases are way easier to remember and way harder to crack than some jumbled mess of letters.

hollyg5912d ago

Jen's neighbor uses correct horse battery staple from that xkcd comic.