• Security

    Online passwords: keep it complicated

    20 Accounts, 20 Passwords? By now, you probably have about 20 different passwords you’re struggling to remember. There must be an easier way. How do you stay one step ahead of the hackers and still stay sane? Let me hazard a wild guess: the system of passwords you use on the internet for accessing online banking, email, shopping sites, Twitter and Facebook accounts is a mess. You know perfectly well what you ought to be doing: for each site you visit, you should be choosing a different, complex sequence of letters, numbers and symbols, and then memorising it. (That’s rule number one of the conventional wisdom on passwords: never, ever…