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.
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