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By Joran Martijn (22nd June 2021)

Passwords and Passphrases are, despite our best intentions, often poorly chosen. The dilemma is to use a seemingly super secure but hard to remember password, or a highly insecure but easy to remember password. Below I outline some tips and tricks on how to choose secure yet fairly easy to remember passwords

====RULE #1====
NEVER EVER use ''password'', ''guest'', ''letmein'', ''qwerty'', ''admin'', ''123456'' or variations of these. You don't have to be a true hacker to crack these passwords.

====RULE #2====
Do NOT use a password that is short (i.e., less than 8 characters long). Short passwords can be fairly easily //bruteforced// (trying 'aaaa', 'aaab', 'aaac' etc all the way until 'zzzz')

====RULE #3====
Do NOT use common English words or try to replace A's with 4's, E's with 3's etc etc. Such passwords can be easily cracked via so-called //dictionary attacks//. A hacker will essentially try a large list of commonly used words and their variations to crack your password. The less common your words are, the better.

====RULE #4====
NEVER use the same password more than once! We all (myself included) fall into the trap of re-using the same passwords because there are so many passwords to keep track of nowadays and the easiest way to deal with that is to keep using the same passwords. I highly recommend identifying your most important accounts and choose unique passwords for each of them.

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