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Create easy to remember, hard to guess passwords with Password Bird
Password Bird is a simple online service that will create a password based on a number of personal markers. Because the password is culled from a few names and dates that are important to you, the hope is that the password will be easy to remember but remain hard to crack.So how does it work? When you visit Password Bird, you are prompted to enter in three items:
- A name that is important or special to you
- A word that is special to you
- A date that has personal significance
The question is, does Password Bird make secure, yet easy to remember, passwords? In our test, we used the name Simon, the word Technology, and 1/1/2000 for the date. Here's what Password Bird came up with:
00simogy
01tecmon
ogysim00
simtec20
It doesn't take the guy from A Beautiful Mind to see a pattern here.
What do you guys think? Useful service or not?
[via Technobuzz]
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