Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months
Clifford Stoll

Clifford Stoll


Handling passwords used to be easy. I’d use password and, later when it was obvious that everyone used password, I’d use sesame. As I became more and more aware that these passwords were well known I adopted more and more obscure words. This is still not a clever idea.