We've all been there – you’ve made an online password that’s impossible to crack... but you’ve forgotten it yourself. Government spy chiefs, however, have now warned complicated passwords made up of letters, numbers and special characters are ‘daft’. Instead they recommend choosing three random words to make your internet accounts secure. 'There are several good reasons why we decided on the three random words approach – not least because they create passwords which are both strong and easier to remember. A combination of three random words to create a key can actually be harder for code-breaking algorithms to detect.

Source: Daily Mail August 07, 2021 00:11 UTC