How to choose a good password?
Best4pcsoft gives you a few tips to protect your mailbox or Facebook account with a strong and unique password.
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A good password must be unique and protect you from hacking attempts. The latter must therefore be complex. One of the most used methods to penetrate your accounts (mailbox, iTunes, social networks ...) is the "brute force", that is to say the test of a very large number of combinations of Numbers or letters. To resist these brutal attacks, you must abandon some bad reflexes: do not use your surname, forenames or dates of birth as a password. If you opt for a long phrase to better remember it, use at least one word that is not present in the dictionary.
The second trick is to opt for characters that are not letters. Use numbers, uppercase letters, or punctuation. A sentence can also be rewritten in phonetics. For example, "I like Morteau sausages" will become "Jmleso62m0rt0".
Finally, be sure to process your password. Do not use the same combination for your Facebook account, iTunes and your mailbox. Above all, never send your password by mail. An official service, such as a bank, will never ask you to send directly your identifiers. If this is the case it is probably a "phishing" operation, intended to usurp your data and your identity.
