A simple but effective tip a friend shared the other day, based on advice from a cybersecurity event:
- Think of a line from your favourite song. For example, ‘love will tear us apart again’ (a particular favourite of mine from Joy Division – but not the one I chose;-)
- Add a punctuation mark e.g. ! or ?
- In brackets/parentheses, write the name of the application that the password is for (e.g. (Google)
And your new, highly memorable password is: lwtuaa!(Gmail)
For each application, just change the word in brackets: lwtuaa!(Jing)……..lwtuaa!(Diigo)……etc.
Just remember not to start singing out loud…
[Image source: ‘Silence’ – Sergio Béjar]
karen spencer 
Lots of great tips. Heard another one the other day and would love some feedback. Have a generic word e.g. app1e . For all of the different passwords that we have . e.g westpac- take first letter, add in the generic word and end it with the last letter so.. wapp1ep . How is that? easy to remember? safe? fits all? What would the experts say?
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Thanks for stopping by, Steph – and that’s another good suggestion. Netsafe’s advice on password creation is here: the Netbasics of passwords, and according to that, the favourite song method would be fine. The method actually came from a cybersecurity event:) Stay safe out there;-)
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A great idea, I always have trouble deciding on a password that 1. i can remember and 2. meets the security requirements. Thanks so much
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You are welcome, Julie – and thanks for stopping by. I have been trialing this and so far it’s working really well. Good luck!
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