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Choosing a Secure Password you can Remember

Here are some suggestions for creating passwords Passport York will accept:

  1. Use an Acronym of a phrase:
    • choose a short phrase you can remember and make it an acronym
    • if any letters of the acronym look like a number, make it a number.
    • eg) "two roads diverged into a yellow wood"
      can be the password:
      trdiayw
      and thus some numbers can also be inserted to be:
      2rd1ayw

    • or, choose the first and last letter of each word in the phrase
    • eg) "mary had a little lamb"
      can be the password:
      myhdaalelb

  2. Use a special date in your life (not your birthday)
    • eg) Wed May 17th
      can be the password:
      wed1may7

  3. Insert numbers into a word
    • eg) email and 123
      becomes
      em123ail

* The passwords we suggested here won't actually work because they were used here as example.

We suggest that you habitually choose passwords in this manner even if you are not forced to do so. Remember that the security of anything that is password protected is only as good as the password used to protect it.