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[quote=Anonymous]At this point in the state of hackerdom, passwords really need to have four things:

1.  They need to be unique to each site
2.  They need to be complicated (ie long, using upper/lowerase/numbers/punctuationifallowed)
3.  They need to not be made up of words/phrases
4.  They need to either be memorized or securely stored.

It's time to look at password managers.  A password manager generates complicated passwords and stores them for you.  You access them by putting in your one, secure password into the system to decrypt the passwords.

Here is a list of some password managers:

http://gizmodo.com/5876508/account-hacked-these-password-managers-keep-your-everything-safe

Personally I like 1Password.  It's easy enough to use, and it can be put on my laptop, iphone, and ipad.  I don't trust cloud password managers because they might one day get hacked.

Once I started using a password manager, which asks to store passwords as you use them, I was shocked to find that I had nearly 60 passwords collected in a few months.  Not all of them are super-important.  But the problem is if any of those passwords is the same as another site, your problem can spread like wildfire.  
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