How do I choose a strong password for my Wifi so they can't hack it?
Hacking has become a serious issue and due to which we see every now and then security data breaches. Worth billions of dollars are hacked every Year. Strong passwords play a critical role in being safe in today's internet world. I'll share with you one of the common technique named, "Passphrase" to create a strong password.
But before that let's looks at some of the common mistakes and weak password which should NEVER be created. But due to the ease of creating it people land up creating those passwords.
The most common mistakes that are made when creating a password.
- 12345
- password
- football
- login
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- welcome
- abc123
- king123
- cricket 123
Do NOT use such simple passwords - they are very simple to get broken and as a result a victim to hacking.
Now let us look into creating a Strong password technique - Use "Passphrases"
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What is a passphrase?
- Passphrase is one of the well-known methods of creating a strong password out of phrases or sentences
- Passphrase is basically a sentence or a phrase that serves as a more secure password
- Use a sentence, proverbs you like, a famous quote from a book, or a song lyric that you can easily remember as the basis of the strong password or passphrase.
Taking an example of creating a Passphrase:
- "My favourite movie is Pursuit of Happiness saw 10times" - mfmiPohs10t
- "Excess of anything is harmfull but I love to have icream 1time a day" - Eoaihbilthi1tad
- "Live life like a king size and enjoy 365 Days" - Lllaksae365D
From the 3 sentences above you can see the following passwords were created:-
- mfmiPohs10t
- Eoaihbilthi1tad
-Lllaksae365D
So what you need to do is pick the first character of the word and include numbers if they come in the sentence. By using the Passphrase technique you actually make password very strong and difficult to guess. It also helps in building a password which includes the most common components in a strong password.
Here is the list of the most common components to include in a strng password:-
- Both upper & lower-case letters
- Numbers are a must
- Include symbols & special characters
- At least 12 characters long
- In-indecipherable word or phrases to be used
I hope this should help to an extent in creating a strong password for your wifi or may it be any of your systems. It's always the best practice to have a strong password because this makes it difficult rather very hard to break in the systems.