A secure password

[PenguinPecker]

I have 4-5 passwords, I don't use the same one for everything, because I worry if someone discovers one they may try that password for my other accounts.

That's a good idea! I do the same thing! Nobody else knows my most secure passwords.
I use the same passwords for certain things. One password for social media, one for email, one for misc, etc. etc. etc.

[partis]

Thats fine. Its your phone.
I would still have it reset to factory specs though, before you destroy it.

HOW do you destroy it though? Just breaking it apart does no good.

The best way to destroy a phone, is to sit a strong magnet on it for a few minutes.
The magnet will effectively destroy the phone to non-working device. Or so I have been told by "experts".

I just took it apart to unrecognizable bits and disposed of them seperately…

[southbiochem]

I remember well your last thread about this.

Well, even my least safe password would take some thousand years to crack, according to your website.

But all in all, I just don't have useful info in any e-mail account.

The most compromising info would be in one of them, and that would be (shhhhhh...don't tell anyone) that I'm gay...which I think the NSA knows by now already, so, whatever.

I have a bank card to buy stuff and get money discounted directly from my account, f I find myself with no cash. That stupid thing has a 4 digit password.......

First, there's the inmmense possibility, with 4 digits, that thousands of folks have the same password..hahaha..

But I do change it constantly. And most importantly..that card does not leave my sight. By law, it cannot be taken from my hands, rather the machine needs to come to me.

Even if it gets cloned nearby by some douche, and I bet it happens, that password doesn't last long enough to be used anyway, before I change it.

And the last part..to make any payment or tranfer online, bank gave me a personal card with a bunch of different numbers in a grid. So everytime I have to do something of the sort they ask me for I don't know, A4, B6, F3, G2.....the nex time I have to type D4, H7, C1 .....so even if my bank account get's hacked they just can't move money without knowing those numbers!

I bet a really experienced hacker could. But those hackers I think would be more occupied hacking accounts of folks that make muuuuch more than this average Joe does, lol

So far (it's been 2 years) Nothing has happened to me.

[LONDONER]

We in the UK have an interesting system used by some banks. If you bank on-line you start off by entering your Customer Number and, once you have done that you are asked to insert your card in to a small card reader as in the attached photo. You then have to punch in your four digit PIN and then a six digit randomly generated code appears in the small screen on the reader and it is this that you have to enter in the on screen form. The randomly generated code is never the same twice.

I never carry the card reader with me except when I travel from country to country so even if my card were stolen, without a card reader and knowledge of my four digit PIN the thief would have little luck. Nothing is perfect of course nor 100% uncrackable, but this goes some way to making things more secure.