Legal Hacking Tip #2: Easy Method for Creating Passwords

Even the most security-friendly of us hate having to change our passwords every 3 months (or even less)! We curse the IT demons and figure out a way of beating the system and rearranging our current passwords, or other configurations of our childrens' birthdays. 

Here's another method of creating easy to remember yet strong passwords: Think of a favorite song; within that song, a favorite phrase; and then type out the first letters of each word of the phrase or some creative variation of this scheme. 

For example, let's say every morning when you get into work, you rock out to Jay-Z's "Roc Boys," from the movie, "American Gangster."And what gets you going is the line, "We the dope boys of the year, drinks is on the house." So when you sit down at your keyboard, jazzed up for whatever the day brings, you get to your Windows log on and type: "WTDBoftYDisontheHouse!" Long password, yes, but it gets you past security, and it types surprisingly fast because in your head, you're jamming out to the song.

Even shorter, "WTDBoftheY"... Throw in some numbers and punctuation: "111WTDBoftheY!"

Now, tell me what hacker would ever guess that kind of password? They might figure out your birthday, your kid's middle name, your anniversary, your high school crush, but this? Never. Unless you constantly rock it out loud on the bus to work every morning. But then you have other problems.