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How to create a hard-to-guess password
In general, the longer you make your passwords, the more secure they will be. "In the last couple of years, the password length recommended by security professionals has gone from eight to twelve characters," Sandra Henry-Stocker writes. Good passwords should also be hard to guess; "password1234" isn't a good password, even though it's 12 characters, she notes.
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