Two ideas for generating secure passwords
These two ideas are offered at Slate, by Farhad Manjoo.
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Here’s another useful tip. On the security questions used by some sites for password recovery, give errant answers. For example, if the security question is “What is your mother’s maiden name?”, and the correct answer is “Lancaster”, then answer with something like “Kolwalski”.
Niklaus: What, in your experience, is the best way (if you’re willing speak in general terms–I don’t want you to compromise your own system) to remember all of your complex passwords and security questions? I figure that one of the worst ways would be to put them into a folder called “Passwords.” And I frankly don’t trust handing my passwords to any online service.
I usually have no problem with the passwords I use daily, but for the one I use less often, I use a password keeper program developed by a coworker that encrypts the password and other info by a master password which acts as an encryption key.