Don't Choose A "Strong" Password
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Everywhere where you create a password these days, they ask you to make sure to include letters, numbers, and capital letters in some sort of variation to make a supposedly strong password. Turns out, you're just creating passwords that are relatively easy for computers to guess - yet hard for humans to remember. A brute force attack can crack your 11 character (numbers and symbols included) password in just three days.

Also, don't use the same password everywhere.

Also, don't use the same password everywhere.
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