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20 Questions to Guess Your Password

80% tell WiredSafety that their password comes from these or similar questions. Check out the list below. How many of these are examples of what you use to choose your passwords?

  • favorite sports team
  • where you go to school
  • pets name
  • favorite color
  • lucky number
  • date of birth
  • middle name
  • favorite animal
  • favorite movie
  • favorite band/singer
  • what college do you want to go to
  • the year you graduate high school
  • best friend’s name
  • favorite sports player
  • favorite book
  • shoe size
  • favorite clothing store
  • favorite food
  • dream car
  • your motto

Now comes the easy part. How many of these questions can you answer about your friends? How many can they answer about you? So, how hard would it be to guess eachothers? Time to change your password, we bet!

Print out the 20 questions and add some of your own. Get your friends or family to fill in their answers too, like the game of battleship, trying to guess the answers.

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lacrosselovaa101: Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Wow. I never noticed how easy someone can guess your passward! 80% is a big portion, too!!

disneylover234: Sunday, May 17, 2009

Teens should just pick random words for their password not having to do with anything they like or anything like that.

BaBiiGiRl12: Monday, May 18, 2009

omg i have used like five of these!!! lol wow=]

Michelle: Friday, June 26, 2009

One thing we learned from parry is how to create "designer passwords" For example. Should my favorite color be red, my favorite candy be snickers, and my shoe size be 5 1/2, then i could have the password 5-1/2redsnickers. No one would ever guess that!! But those are not my preferences so don't think that is my password!!! (i can't eat snickers with braces and my foot wouldn't fit in a size 5 1/2 if i tried!)

Beep21: Tuesday, July 07, 2009

I use different passwords on every website I get an account on, but many of my passwords share a common theme. Even if a person found out that common theme, he still would likely not be able to guess my password on every site I use. Also, I don't limit the topic to things I like. I also have things I dislike.

Violetvee: Tuesday, August 18, 2009

i used t ouse my pets name as passwords all the time.

growingstronger: Friday, August 21, 2009

I read an article once about this same thing. You should never have a readable english word as your base. You should have numbers and/or symbols in the middle of your password, and you should use an acronym for it, and upper and lower case letters. Like for instance, if the Month is March, and it's 90 degrees outside (like that ever happens!), a password could be this. itmoM!iI90dO (In the month of March it is 90 degrees outside). This is just used as an example. Please don't use this password! Using an acronym is a good way to remember your password and being hard to guess. Remember, if you can't remember your password, it isn't a good acronym.

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