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| Protect Your Passwords
Your password into a secure site is the key to your personal information and whatever is available on that site, such as your entire bank account balance. Never share it with anyone. It's also a good idea NOT to select the "save password" feature on any secure site. If you do, you have, in effect, removed the login security altogether for anyone visiting the site on your computer.
Keeping your password to yourself may not completely ensure the safety of your secure site. It's important to select passwords that are unique and difficult to decipher. Following are some tips for creating unique passwords:
- Create passwords that mix letters, numbers and special characters.
- Never use easy to guess passwords like your birthday, your name or names of people in your family, etc.
- Avoid real words. One way to do this is to use the first few words of a rhyme (e.g. maryhada3 from "Mary had a little lamb" and your favourite number) or the first letters of the name of a song you like (e.g. "iw2hyh" from "I Want To Hold Your Hand").
- Do not use the same password for multiple secure sites.
- Change your passwords frequently.
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