It's National Identity Fraud Prevention Week this week.
There's a worrying article in November's WIRED magazine which tells us that an awful lot of people out there have absolutely no imagination when it comes to passwords.
Popular passwords include (STILL!)
- password
- 123456
- qwerty
- the same as my username
- my phone number
- my birthday
When you think of the chaos that a bad guy can cause if he steals your identity, then why do some of us use these daft passwords?
I have a dreadful memory for quite a lot of things. But I built a password which looks like a random collection of letters (upper and lower case), digits and punctuation marks. For the first couple of days it was a struggle, but now I can rattle it off in no time. Probably about time I changed it…..
There is no excuse – there, told you! There are loads of articles on the interweb to help you with concocting a decent, secure password. Here is a link to just one. Please read it and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
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