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The best kind of password to protect sensitive, personal or financial information is what's called a "strong" password.
Strong passwords are nine or more characters taken from each of the following four categories:
So H#roH&23+ is a strong password, but it would be difficult to remember and you might be tempted to write it down somewhere (also a no no).
A good way of getting a strong password is to start by using a phrase or song title of three or more words that you will remember eg "Jack and Jill went up the hill" or "Are you lonesome tonight" or "It's a fine day on the farm".
Then take the first two or three letters from each word in the phrase and say, make the first letter from each word uppercase, and use say, 8 instead of "ate" 1 instead of "i", 6 for an "S" and & for "and" etc. Or you might remove any vowels etc.
So using the above technique "Jack and Jill went up the hill" would become Ja&J1WeUp. It looks complicated, but using the phrase really works. Try it a few times before you decide on your password. Then commit it to memory and don't write it or the phrase down and don't share it with anyone else.
Just to give you the complete picture, weak passwords that shouldn't be used are ones that
All of the above weak passwords are relatively easy for a hacker to discover. Given enough time and computer power a determined hacker could eventually break a strong password too. However since such an attack would take a long time it would be noticed and stopped.
Remember the four key things are:
(With thanks to the Internal Affairs IT support team.)
[September 2005] One thing community groups often want to do is take and share photos. Your conference, new committee, fundraising day, end of year picnic — whatever the occasion you might like to take some photos. And having collected a memory card full of photos, what do you do with them?
If you have a website you might share them that way, but many websites aren't really set up to share photos in bulk. You could also email the photos to everyone, but as we've mentioned before, email attachments are becoming increasingly problematic. So how about looking into Flickr?
Flickr offers two levels of service: free and paid. It's easy to add your photos, make them public or keep them just for friends and family, and even to add a photo link from your own website to your Flickr album.
On top of that, you can add 'tags' (keywords) to your photos, meaning visitors from around the world can find your photos and make connections with you. This is a great community-building technique.
What's more Flickr provides automatic RSS news feeds so people can subscribe to your albums and automatically receive the photos, or even subscribe to feeds of all photos related to a particular topic from all Flickr users.
For example, after seeing a recent TV documentary, I searched on the word 'thalidomide'. That brought me to two photos, while a search on 'wheelchair' found 532.
We have a small, experimental album on Flickr, and you're welcome to use ours to give it a try before you sign up for yourself. Email information@community.net.nz and ask for the password.
Past Website tips are all available on CommunityNet Aotearoa.
Research links and an e-Riders toolkit have been added to the Digital Strategy Hot Topic. www.community.net.nz/HotTopics/Digital-Strategy.
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