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That's actually probably the worst thing you can do. Password reuse is a bigger problem in practice than password guessability.

I use password generation schemes. For example, you might decide to use the highest-grossing films of various years. You can then write down the site name and a year in a file and then be able to derive a password, and it gives you dozens of unique passwords that are still resistant to dictionary attacks. It also tends to satisfy sites that require at least one number, one upper-case, and one lower-case letter.




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